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world war, 1914-191812
thiepval memorial (thiepval, france)10
diaries1
photographs1
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sermons, english1

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From 190021

Archive Object File

breeches

c.1914-1918

1 Pair riding breeches, khaki, drill, part of the uniforms of Prof. C. Chibnall

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Category: Fleas, Flies and Insects in General

R.S.Stancliffe (GS) Letters 15/28(4.7.15), 17/49(15.6.17) and

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HART, NORMAN B.

c 1915

Photocopies of 3 Norman B. Hart letters sent to his mother, Dec 1915-Feb 1916. "6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Ghurka Rifles Regimental Association" (Bridgwater), nos 48-49 (1971-1972) including extracts f...

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CHURCHILL, WOLSTAN DIXIE

[1783], 1824, 1830-1836, 1898-1940

49 diaries (1824, 1830-1832, 1834-1836, 1898, 1900-1940); Manuscript sermon, first preached by Joseph Dixie Churchill (d 1836) (grandfather) at Worstead in 1783 and preached again by Wolstan Dixie Chu...

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Category: Instruction Courses/Training

W.K. Stoddart (GS). Letters from Egypt 45-49/17 (6-23/8/17). Being trained as a signaller 'I am having the best holiday IU ever had [at signals school] living like a Lord, nothing to do and plenty of money - what more could a man want?'

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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the War in General

J.R.Tibbies (GS) Vol.? la "Reckless joy at setting for battle" Vol.A 27-28 Before 1917 "A sporting war" - after that "The good old days when war was a jest were gone". Vol.? 49 - Vol.D 105-6 Great regret for those days...prays sincerely

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Category: Enlistment/Recruitment/Training

J. Riddey (GS). Letters 1915-1916, letter 49 (6.2.16) 'humbugging blackguards at the War Office seem to be going out of their way to make the helpless, unoffending life a far from happy one…only 2 evenings per week off now they have decided that’s too much and so say that training is to be continued till 4pm on Saturdays'. Letter 1 (1.1.17) makes favourable references to training at Le Havre.

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Category: Somme - Battle of; July 1st - November 1916

T.Lethem (GS) Recollections p 5-7 and 1916 Diary cover events 2-8th July at a Dressing Station in a cellar at the main crossroads in Martinsart. "Just the most dangerous spot in the whole place" ... so crowded with casualties it became "a second black hole of Calcutta". 26.7.16 - None of the medical

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Thiepval Memorial France : bearing the names of those sailors and soldiers from the United Kingdom and South Africa who fell fighting on the Somme and Ancre, 1916-1917, and whose graves are not known (pt.45 Trotter-Wall)

Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1978-<1992>

Includes introduction to the register. "The original register was published in 1929 and subsequent changes have been incorporated in this amended version". Original introduction register was publish...

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Thiepval Memorial France : bearing the names of those sailors and soldiers from the United Kingdom and South Africa who fell fighting on the Somme and Ancre, 1916-1917, and whose graves are not known (pt.32, Mortimore-Nichols)

Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1978-<1992>

Includes introduction to the register. "The original register was published in 1929 and subsequent changes have been incorporated in this amended version". Original introduction register was publish...

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Thiepval Memorial France : bearing the names of those sailors and soldiers from the United Kingdom and South Africa who fell fighting on the Somme and Ancre, 1916-1917, and whose graves are not known (pt.30, Marshall-Millar)

Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1978-<1992>

Includes introduction to the register. "The original register was published in 1929 and subsequent changes have been incorporated in this amended version". Original introduction register was publish...

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Thiepval Memorial France : bearing the names of those sailors and soldiers from the United Kingdom and South Africa who fell fighting on the Somme and Ancre, 1916-1917, and whose graves are not known (pt.26, 1916-1917 Kneale-L)

Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission

1978-<1992>

Includes introduction to the register. "The original register was published in 1929 and subsequent changes have been incorporated in this amended version". Original introduction register was publish...

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