RATCLIFFE, BERTRAM LOUIS
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Type of record: Archive
Title: RATCLIFFE, BERTRAM LOUIS
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/1327
Date(s): 1913-1918, 1932-1980
Size and medium: 6 boxes; typescript papers; artwork; diary; photographs; telegram; medals; flag; volumes; tin; CD-RWs
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/sgff1wsm
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/29555
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
Typescript recollections of an Aide de Camp; Memorial address; Maps; Telegram and papers, referring to his capture and escape; Copies of POW (Prisoner of War) drawings from Ingolstadt; Recollections 'The Chemin des Dames' revisited; Diary from Palestine (1918); Folder containing staff notes; Various papers; Photographs; Photograph album; Book 'Idle Warriors'; Compass; Framed items: Portrait photograph; Commission (1913); Photograph and drawings of POWs and Ingolstadt Camp barrack interiors (1916-1918) and escape-route map ([1917]).
Also, letter of congratulation on escape, from Clive Wigram on behalf of George V, telegram invitation to lunch at Windsor Castle (1917); Medals (Military Cross, 1914 Star ("Mons Star"), War Medal 1914-1920, Victory Medal 1914-1918, Defence Medal 1939-1945, War Medal 1939-1945); Turkish flag and explanatory note (1917); 31 volumes of 'Journal', 1932-1980; 6 CD-RWs containing Ratcliffe's journals from No. 10, June 1941 - No 30, Feb 1976; sardine tin with hidden maps intended to aid escape from POW camp.
Biography or history
Ratcliffe, Bertram Louis (1893-1992). Captain, 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, serving on the Western Front and in Palestine. Held POW (Prisoner of War) but escaped. Awarded MC (Military Cross).
Provenance
The papers were placed in the Collection by G Brotherton Ratcliffe (nephew); the framed items and Turkish flag were placed in the Collection by Evelyn Ratcliffe (widow) in May and July 2001; the Journal was placed in the Collection by Evelyn Ratcliffe (widow) in October 2005
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Reproduction
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On our website
Online exhibition: Bertram Ratcliffe's sardine tin and map of Bavaria, 1916
Bertram Ratcliffe s was a regular army officer was captured by the Germans in 1914. A map of Bavaria was smuggled to him in a sardine tin. One of the treasures of Special Collections in Leeds University Library.