Hartley, Harry
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Hartley, Harry
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.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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