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YATES, EDWIN

Archive File: LIDDLE/WW1/DF/146

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Type of record: Archive

Title: YATES, EDWIN

Level: File

Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/DF/146

Date(s): 1914-1918

Size and medium: 1 box

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/30808

Collection group(s): Liddle Collection

Description

Application for temporary commission (7 Dec 1914); 2 copy photographs (nd); 28 typescript and manuscript letters, mainly relating to the recruitment of men who would not usually be accepted for military service because of their age or height (29 Aug-22 Dec 1914); Order under the Military Service Act, 1918, with tribunal form (1918); War Pensions and Statutory Committee regulations and instructions (8 June 1916); Shorthand note and sketch (1915); List of names, addresses and occupations (nd); c 40 postcards and manuscript letters from men who would not usually be accepted for military service because of their age or height (8 Sep-25 Nov 1914, nd).

Biography or history

Yates, Edwin (b 1871). Secretary, National United Service Club, and a solicitor at Lloyds Bank Chambers, Darwen, Lancashire, specialising in enlistment to Bantam units during the First World War.

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by GE Yates (grandson) in Sep 1997.

Access and usage

Reproduction

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