YATES, EDWIN
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: YATES, EDWIN
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
Access
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