SWALE, WILLIAM ERIC
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: SWALE, WILLIAM ERIC
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/RUH/52
Date(s): 1914-1918
Language: English; German
Size and medium: 2 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/27642
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
4 Christmas cards (1914-1918); 30 postcards (1914-c 1918); 4 postcards with sketches used to illustrate a lecture (nd); 3 watercolour cartoons (nd); 50 photographs (1915-1918); Papers from the American Consular Service (13 Aug 1914); Manuscript letter to the Home Office confirming considerate and courteous treatment of British residents in Mannheim (1 Nov 1914); Manuscript letter, with typescript translation, from a German friend regarding the causes of the First World War (27 Sep 1914); 2 manuscript notebooks 'Ruhleben Memories' and 'Stable Jottings' (1914-1915); Letter to his Father (2 May 1915); Supplement to Ruhleben paper (June 1915); Printed theatre and concert programmes, revue extracts, poems and song-sheets (1915-1917); Tercentenary Shakespeare Festival song-sheet (23-30 Apr 1916); Manuscript verses of the Ruhleben song and five other songs (nd); Issue of 'The Ruhleben Daily News' (25 Jan 1916); Typescript English text of Russian poem (8 Jan 1916); Issue of magazine 'Prisoners'
Pie' (1916); Fragment of Summer issue of 'The Ruhleben Camp Magazine' (Aug 1916); Press cuttings from 'The Daily Telegraph' (20 Sep 1916) and 'Selfridges News' (c 1916); Manuscript letter, with typescript translation, from a German uncle (21 June 1916); German press cutting relating to Ruhleben (nd); Ruhleben Camp School membership card for Winter Term (1916); Prospectus of work for Autumn Term at Ruhleben Camp School (1917); German certificate (22 Nov 1918); 3 books bound by WE Swale at Ruhleben Camp School (nd); Booklet of 'Special War Cartoons' published by 'The Daily Graphic' (nd); Typescript projected index for Ruhleben magazines (nd); Typescript recollections 'A Barbed Wire Society' by JD Ketchum (nd); Typescript recollections 'We Band of Brothers' (May 1962); Autographed Ruhleben reunion dinner menu (3 Nov 1967); Letter to Edmonds relating to reunion dinners (5 Oct 1970); Papers relating to Ruhleben reunion dinners (1973-1974); Typescript list of future professions entered into by a
selection of Ruhleben prisoners (13 Dec 1974); Typescript autobiography 'Slide Rule in Hand: An Engineer Looks Back - 1890-1974' [1974]; Typescript list of books and articles dealing with Ruhleben (nd); Manuscript and typescript notes from letters to his mother (nd); Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (Apr 1977): Typescript essay 'Novel Evidence on the Tay Bridge Disaster' (Aug 1977); Letter (20 Sep 1977); Typescript 'Memories of Ruhleben Camp' compiled by WE Swale and Peter Liddle (Nov 1977).
Biography or history
Swale, William Eric (1890-1980). Born in London and educated at the City of London School. Studied engineering at Aachen, 1911-1913, and was working for an electrical manufacturer at Mannheim at the outbreak of War. Held British Civil Prisoner of War, interned at Ruhleben, 1914-1918, living in Barrack No. 11.
Provenance
The papers were placed in the Collection by WE Swale in 1977 and 1978. See Ruhleben Correspondence File and Swale Correspondence File.
Access and usage
Reproduction
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