MCEVOY, Patrick E
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Type of record: Archive
Title: MCEVOY, Patrick E
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/1011
Creator(s): McEvoy, Patrick Edward (1881-1952); Ambler, Mabel (1890-1978); Ambler, Major Ernest (1892-1958)
Date(s): 1914-1918
Size and medium: 1 file; 2 boxes; handwritten papers; volume; postcards
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/s6bdq5xp
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/29240
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
Letters and various papers. The material includes letters from fiancée's brothers, Ernest Ambler (Captain with the 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment) and George Ambler (Lieutenant with the 6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment).
Additional material added in 2007 related to Ernest Ambler: 2 packs of bookplates with crest; E. Powell bookmaker's rule book (1935); German bank note (funf mark); Invoice to V.O. Ambler (10 Aug 2001).
Additional material was added in 2024. This comprises:
1. Miscellaneous correspondence 1910-1911.
2. Letters mainly from Patrick McEvoy, 1912.
3. Letters and postcards mainly from Patrick McEvoy to Mabel Ambler. Mabel's nickname in many of the letters is Arizona, 1913.
4. Letters mainly from Patrick McEvoy to Mabel Ambler. Patrick is now in the army, 1915-1920.
5. Letter from Ernest Ambler, photographs of Ernest and his soldier's small book.
Miscellaneous undated letters and postcards, some from Mabel Ambler.
Biography or history
Patrick Edward McEvoy was born in Seaforth, Lancashire, on 18 April 1881. Before the war he ran the grocery company P. McEvoy Sons & Pinnington Ltd. in Liverpool. The company specialised in American food. Patrick, known as Pat, served as Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant, King Edward's Horse, on the Western Front, 1915-1919. After a period of hospitalisation, Patrick married Mabel Ambler in Gloucester on 15 July 1918. Toward the end of the war Patrick was a prisoner of war in Mainz. During the war Mabel did voluntary service in military canteens in France. After the war Patrick and Mabel lived at Abbeyland in Settle, Yorkshire, and had six children. Patrick died on 8 December 1952. Mabel died on 5 September 1978.
Ernest Ambler was born on 18 May 1892 in Bradford, Yorkshire. Ernest was one of Mabel's brothers. In World War One Ernest served with the Royal Fusiliers and was a lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment. He became a major in the army. In 1931 Ernest married Vivian Olga Flemmich. He died in Harrogate in 1958.
The person named Norman mentioned in many of the letters is John Norman Ambler (1889-1967) Mabel's oldest brother.
Provenance
The papers were placed in the Collection by P McEvoy (son). Additional material relating to Ernest Ambler added in Jan 2007 by Sarah Foster c/o V.O. Ambler. See Research Correspondence File. Additional material, mainly correspondence between Patrick and Mabel and a published transcription of their letters, was added by Iain Stirling in 2024.
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