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Christmas 1914: ‘A man playing a penny whistle’ Chandos Hoskyns

Lieutenant-Colonel Chandos Benedict Arden Hoskyns
  • Chandos Hoskyns at Winchester College
    Chandos Hoskyns at Winchester College
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Chandos Benedict Arden Hoskyns
    Lieutenant-Colonel Chandos Hoskyns

Today I remember my maternal grandfather, Chandos Hoskyns who was commissioned into The Rifle Brigade [Greenjackets] in 1914. During The Great War, he fought in Thessaloniki, Greece, and in the trenches of France from where he sent the following letter in which he tells his family about something surprising and unusual.

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