Good content letter sent from Private Albert Thomson, Gloucestershire Regiment, 12th Battalion, to his wife, 19pp. 12mo, Aug. 8, [n.y.], [France]. Thompson writes, in part:"We have been in the thickest of it for quite some time now... If the Devil ever has to make hell a worse place than it is up where we were fighting then he's got a stiff job on, + I should be more than sorry for anyone who went there... Our Division did very well, have accomplished the task that was put before us + drove fritz back out of it... They are giving themselves up in numbers now. We are pretty certain they won't last out much longer."Â Private Thompson later died in combat in France on July 9, 1916 - over two years before the conflict ended. Very good condition. Sold with a document by the British record office transmitting the 1914-15 Star earned by her husband to Mrs. Thompson, and numerous post-war photographs of Thompson's grave.