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Hartley, Harry

Archive File: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/1878

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Hartley, Harry

Level: File

Classmark: LIDDLE/WW1/GS/1878

Creator(s): Hartley, Harry (1889-1974)

Date(s): 1895-2019

Size and medium: 3 boxes; manuscript papers; typescript papers; photographs; manuscript notebooks; maps; pamphlets; bank books; passports; CD; wallet; newspaper cuttings; photocopies

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/682307

Collection group(s): Liddle Collection

Description

The file contains documents relating to Harry Hartley's military service including his officer training and a notebook in which he recorded lectures during training. There are some photographs and some correspondence which includes two letters to/from his family.


The file contains pre and post war documents relating to Hartley and his family.


The file also contains notes, research papers and transcripts of original documents made by Hartley's grandson, Michael Berry.

Biography or history

Harry Hartley was born in 1889 in Bradford. He served with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding). Hartley became an officer and was also an interpreter at the prisoner of war camp in Leigh. He was shot in an attack on Bourlon Wood. In December 1919 Hartley was invalided out of the army. He died in 1974.

Provenance

Donated by Harry Hartley's grandson, Michael Berry, in 2019.

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