SIGNIFICANT SHORTS : Killed in action letter is sold for pounds 27,600
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Your support makes all the difference.A War Office telegram to Robert Graves's family, wrongly reporting that he had been killed in action, was sold for pounds 27,600 at Sotheby's in London.
It was among a collection of family papers bought by a book-dealer which also contained a telegram that the writer sent from a field hospital reading: "Starting England not dead." He was a 21-year-old officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and had suffered a chest wound in the First World War Battle of the Somme.
Graves, who was later to write a classic book of memoirs entitled Goodbye to All That, survived although he was thought to have no chance. He lived to be 90.
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