Online Collection

The Online Collection showcases a selection of our objects for you to discover and explore. This resource will grow as the Museum's Collection is catalogued and computerised, and as new acquisitions are added.

Additional Images

Letter from Lance-Corporal Albert H Haughton, 23rd Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) to his mother, 19 August 1916

The letter contains mostly personal business, but thanks her for a parcel with cake and the importance of sharing amongst the troops. Haughton was one of 32 soldiers lost in the battalion's first very costly action at Flers-Courcellette on the Somme on 15 September 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

From a collection of papers and a photograph relating to F.2364 L/Cpl Albert H Haughton, 23rd Bn, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), 1915-1916.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 2005-08-66-3

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, London

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2005-08-66-3