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WWI Tommy's tragic last letter home: Soldier asked his father for a 'warm' undershirt and cigarettes just a week before he was killed in 1914 - as family archive heads to auction

Lance Corporal William Burton was inspired to follow in the footsteps of his father, also called William, who had served with distinction in the Boer War.