![Letter about C B Wedd being a German spy Letter about C B Wedd being a German spy](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpKud9ZAef9V2Yu21vS8L-mshDHVfJjnpHiq4OWS8ekloF26jGwexgYRciEvC0zvIIYVcNF6Pc7Q493JR_rF8-lNb6O0EVu4XiK787xaGOySYJ3kr0IqFqAgQ6YamNGIZByYIjtS9Ds1g6/s640/Spaullletter.jpg) |
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This letter is from W H Spaull who was a magistrate at Oswestry. He is enquiring about geologist Charles Bertie Wedd (1868-1945) who was allegedly up a tree sketching near an army camp and mistaken for a German spy and almost lynched! This letter as well as showing some of the dangers a field geologist may face also demonstrates the fear of German spies less than two months after the outbreak of World War 1.
Posters about the Geological Survey and World War I
Andrew L Morrison
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