10.5287/BODLEIANR2U.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
John Eadie and David Abrahamson (10)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
nsJvlaZm154458
1914-08-01/1916-12-31
2011-12-05 13:01:04.298477
2011
gwa-8097
Multiple
Letter to daughter from John Eadie
Residue of Naval Assets (John Eadie)
Leith School Board, two certificates for David Abrahamson
Postcard, lowestoft
Patriotic card 'To Lottie from Dadda'
Photo x 2 John Eadie
Photo group. the Eadie family:
Sophia, holding book
Agnes, oldest child
Charlotte, 2nd daughter
Johnny, son referred to in letter
My grandfather John Eadie was lost on 2nd April 1916 when his minesweeper HMS Commandant struck a mine at Lowestoft.
The letter he sent to my mother was probably written the Christmas before he died. He refers to Zeppelins and he died the day they attacked Leith.
He was a Leith man who married a Newhaven woman and lived in Newhaven at the time he died. The Family wrote letters to say they were OK, but he had died the same day.