ROOKE, LEONARD F
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Type of record: Archive
Title: ROOKE, LEONARD F
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/1382
Date(s): 1914-1918, 1939-1945
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/29610
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
Letter from his father (Aug 1914); Report on grenade attack; Various other letters and papers, a few of which are photocopies; RFC (Royal Flying Corps) accident report; Medical record of wounds; Photographs; Postcards; Christmas card (1917); 5 small books (4 are of religious texts); Identity disk; Steel box in leather case; Plate from German Pickelhaube; some material relating to service with Home Guard, etc., 1939-1945; Photographs and papers from other family friends.
Biography or history
Rooke, Leonard F. Lieutenant serving with King Edward's Horse Battalion and the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers Regiment, and later the RFC (Royal Flying Corps), on the Western Front from 1915. Later Major.
Provenance
The papers were placed in the Collection by Mrs S Saunders-Davis (grand-daughter).
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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