Cushion cover made by soldier recovering from gas attack 1917

John Robert Ratcliffe, born 15 August 1893 in Blackburn and died February 1972 in Blackburn. Private in the East Lancashire Regiment.
The great uncle of the contributor, Jean Dunston. Her maternal grandmother's brother.

Cushion cover made which John Robert Ratcliffe was in a convalescent Hospital in Godalming, Surrey, after being mustard gassed on the Somme. He used the cushion in the dif…