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    Long-lost photo album of first world war soldier given to his family

    Lt Henry Sacheverel Sanders annotated pages in expectation he would die in battle
    by Caroline Davies Nov 07, 2018 3 minutes
    The scrapbook begins with the inscription: ‘To my son, that you might know what sort of people we used to be.’ Photograph: IWM

    A long-lost photograph album, compiled by a soldier who set off for the first world war never to return, has been reunited with his descendants ahead of the Armistice centenary.

    Lt Henry Sacheverel Sanders pasted in family and military photographs, and annotated it with extracts from poems and musical scores, in the expectation he would die in battle, and so those who came after him could know about his life.

    Lt Henry Sacheverel Sanders.
    Lt Henry Sacheverel Sanders. Photograph: IWM

    He compiled it after the deaths of

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