HEMMINGS, HENRY

Description

Service record and official and other papers (1917-1921); Photographs; Picture postcards of Duston Military Hospital (near Northampton); Max Aitken "Canada in Flanders" (London etc, 1916); XIV OCB "C" Company record and text of farewell speech (not by Hemmings) (1918); Standing Orders of 3rd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (1917); "The Attack on Laffaux" (1917); Maps (including trench maps) of Belgium and France; "The Battle of Britain" (Garden City, USA, 1940).

Biography or history

Hemmings, Henry (1899-1997). Born in Northampton. Cadet at Northampton School and auxiliary at Duston Military Hospital (1914-1917). Enlisted 2 Feb 1917. Trained in Inns of Court OTC (Aug-Dec 1917) and Officer Cadet Battalion, Berkhamsted and Catterick (Dec 1917-May 1918). Served in France in 3rd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, attached to 11th Sherwood Foresters (Oct 1918-May 1919). Subsequently studied geology at St John's College, Cambridge.

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by Diana Dowsett (daughter) in May 2001.

Access and usage

Reproduction

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