CHALMERS, ROBERT
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: CHALMERS, ROBERT
Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/1874
Original reference: LIDDLE/WW1/ADD/102
Creator(s): Chalmers, Robert (1915)
Date(s): 1914-1915
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/30939
Collection group(s): Liddle Collection
Description
4 copy letters from R. Chalmers and 6 Platoon B Company Sergeant Audley W Hodgson to Mr Rigg concerning replacements for lost watches (May 1915); copy letter from R Chalmers to Lany Inchcape (May 1915); 12 copy letters of condolence etc on R. Chalmers's death (May-June 1915); Letter of condolence from A. Martineau, Governor of French Indian dependencies (June 1915); Portrait of R. E. Stubbs, member of Ceylon Legislative Council (1914); Minutes of Ceylon Legislative Council (1915).
Biography or history
Chalmers, Robert (died 1915). Younger son of Sir Robert Chalmers, then Governor of Ceylon. Lieutenant serving with the Civil Service Rifles, 15th London Regiment on the Western Front. Killed in action 25 May 1915.
Provenance
The papers were placed in the Collection by the Second World War Experience Centre (SWWEC) in January 2013 (LC 13/01). See Research Correspondence File.
Access and usage
Reproduction
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