WITHERINGTON, ARTHUR SIMPSON

Description

Box 1: Gun drill booklet (1914); Menu; Report on character; Telegram (1918); Programme for unveiling of memorial at Wietje; Book of postcards of Albert; Front page from 1933 Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette, including column by Witherington; Photograph of Leys Cadet Corps; Aerial photograph of Cherisy (1917); Commision; Photographs of POW camp; POW envelopes; 2 postcards to Mrs Witherington; 3 postcards of Stralsund; German programme; German 5-mark note; Various photographs; Various papers, many relating to being a POW. Box 2: Typescript recollections, 1916-1918; Typescript of Lt Col F L Pickersgill record of 3rd Northumbrian Field Artillery Brigade, 1914-1916. Box 3: Maps.

Biography or history

Witherington, Arthur Simpson. Lieutenant serving with the RFA (Royal Field Artillery) Northumbrian Brigade, on the Western Front, 1915-1918. Held POW (Prisoner of War).

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by Mrs Witherington (widow).

Access and usage

Reproduction

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