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Category: Entertainment/Recreation/Sport: Entertainment

C.L.Leeson (GS) Concert Party "The Follies". Accompanist and conductor. Letter 29.3.18.

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Category: Entertainment/Recreation/Sport: Entertainment

R.C.Leach (GS) Letter to his mother 14.3.15 describing RAMC Concert "The Follies".

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Category: Entertainment/Recreation/Sport: Entertainment

P.H.Pilditch (GS) pp379/380 of his memoirs describing 47th Div. "Follies" and their revue "Hell and Halifax" which satirises the war continuing into 1950.

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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the War in General

J.Tait (GS) 2.5.16 "When we shelter in this peaceful harbour [i.e. out of the line] we think how absurd it is to be at war, and how the folly of it all is brought home to us".

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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards the War in General

C.E.Moy (GS) Recollections Chapt.VI "to have been one tiny glorious fool among the millions whose folly saved the world is to me the greatest honour a man can bear".

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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Senior Officers and Staff

J.W.B.Russell (GS) Letter 13 & 17.8.15 The wretched Brigade Staff in a panic lest their HQs be given away by troops moving about. Transcript of diary, 14.9.15 for Brigade and Div. staff "causing unintentional amusement in the folly of their orders". Use of coloured sandbags and bits of rags such as petticoats on outside of parapets!

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LINDSAY, LADY KATHLEEN

1878-1921, 1929, 1949-1953

63 manuscript letters and postcards to and from Lady Kathleen Lindsay and her family (28 June 1878-26 Sep 1921, 5-17 Feb 1949, nd); Press cuttings (28 Dec 1914, 11 Nov 1918, nd); Papers and correspond...

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