WW2 British Casualty Paperwork Group (S.Lancashire Regiment)

Interesting & poignant group of paperwork relating to the death of a British Officer who was killed on Active Service in India in September 1942.
The correspondence starts in August 1942 with his wife having written to the Army to enquire as to the welfare of her husband who was serving in India & who she hadnt had any contact from for some time. The enquiries have been taken up by the Chaplains Department several letters of which explain their action.
Putting her husbands lack of communication down to the time delays incurred with a posting to India she receives a telegram on 7th october 1942 informing her of the death of her husband , a Lieutenant in the South Lancashire Rifles, as a result of a motor accident.
A letter dated February 1943 goes into more detail & gives the circumstances under which he was killed stating that the truck he was travelling in was discovered overturned in a pond by Indian tribesman with his body & that of another soldier underneath the vehicle.
Various correspondence relating to this & that of the War Graves & his burial details are to be found within the group along with other letters regarding her entitlement to a Captains pension rather than the Lieutenants pension she was receiving ( When killed he was Paid acting Captain ) . This was also taken up by her writing to her MP EL Fleming & posted to the House of Commons on March 21st 1945 after an ongoing tussle with the War Office. The correspondence relating to this is contained within the group.
A newspaper cutting of 1942 lists Lieutenant McManus of the S.Lancs in the Officers Killed Roll of Honour.

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