WETTERN, ERIC FRANK

Description

70 letters to family & others, 1914-1918; Diaries, 1915-1916; Paybook, 1915-1916; Officer's Record of Services (Army Book 439); RNDE dance (including dance cards with pencils), Deal, 1915; Official documents (travel pass, posting orders, promotion papers, temporary commission, commendations, Etaples hospital, discharge & reserve papers), 1914-1921; RNDE battle honours War Office correspondence, 1923, 1933-1934; Gallipoli (15 maps; Letter published in "The Surveyor and Municipal and County Engineer", 23 July 1915; 2 humorous "Tragedies", 1915, nd; "The RNDE in Gallipoli", c.1919; Accounts of the evacuation of Helles in January 1916 & Special Dardanelles Army Order of the Day; Translated extracts from Carl Mühlmann "Der Kampf um die Dardanellen; Photocopied letters from French serviceman to family, 1915; Turkish Gallipoli pilgrimage brochures; Illustrated magazine article, 1965); Circulars, newspaper cuttings, photographs etc about RND memorials, pilgrimages & reunions (Beaucourt, 1922 [see
additional photographs in Gallipoli section]; Somme, 1924; Greenwich, 1925, 1951, 1970; Antwerp, 1930; London, 1933; [for Gallipoli pilgrimage, 1934, see photographs in Gallipoli section;] French battlefields, 1935; Paris, 1946; Chartwell (with Winston Churchill; also letter from J R Colville enclosing duplicated letter of thanks from Churchill), 1955; Paris, 1963); "1914-1918: An Anthology of the Royal Naval Division" (after 1930); "Daddy's Doings in the Great War" (lists of lantern slides with captions, see Gallipoli section); ID disc; 6 RND, RND Association & Dardanelles badges; Turkish medal; 2 Turkish military cemetery commemorative badges; Pressed flowers; Miscellaneous (tent list, address, atlas page); "The Ranger: A Journal for the Connaught Rangers", vol 7, no 26, May 1933; Typed transcripts of interviews recorded with Peter Liddle, April 1972.

Biography or history

Wettern, Eric Frank.(1890-). Corporal, later Captain, RND (Royal Naval Division) Engineers, serving at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by Mr J.H. Wettern (son) in 1999? and in Aug 2002 (LC 02/16). See Research Correspondence File.

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Related material

Tapes 101/118 (Transcripts) interview recorded with Peter Liddle. See also GE 04: Balters, H. See also GALL 115: Wood, HC. 6 boxes of photographs (many by other people) with lists, newspaper cuttings (also correspondence about RND badges etc) & 3 boxes of lantern slides held under Gallipoli photographs.