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LIDDELL, GUY MAYNARD

Archive File: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/0954

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Type of record: Archive

Title: LIDDELL, GUY MAYNARD

Level: File

Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/0954

Date(s): 1914-1919; c 1945

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/29183

Collection group(s): Liddle Collection

Description

2 books of transcribed letters between GM Liddell and his brother, David (Private, 2nd Battalion, HAC (Honourable Artillery Company), and 2nd Lieutenant, RFA (Royal Field Artillery), serving on the Western Front in 1915; MC); German papers (1918); One translated document on the British Offensive (8 Aug 1918); Published copy of Sir John French's first despatches; 2 photograph and scrap albums; Aerial photographs; Personal and official photographs; Maps of Zillebeke (June 1915) and Arras (Apr 1917); Artiller barrage map (Nov 1918); 'La Libre Belgique' (12 Nov 1918), Letters (1919); Testimonials; Personal effects bag; Copy of Raemaker's Cartoons; Copy of Bairnsfather's "Fragments from France"; Postwar cuttings, in particular regarding Lindendorff's memoirs; File of papers regarding the Germans interned and also regarding the War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg (1945).

Biography or history

Liddell, Guy Maynard (1892-1958). Private, 2nd Battalion, HAC (Honourable Artillery Company) and 2nd Lieutenant, later Captain, RFA (Royal Field Artillery), serving on the Western Front in 1915; MC.

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by John Booth (son-in-law). See Research Correspondence File.

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