Manuscripts relating to the First and Second World War; comprising a group of Great War letters, including some from the Western Front--A Field Message Book, various ephemera, training notes etc.--Letters by a French soldier to his wife, 1914-17--Album of photographs kept by Nurse Helen Canning serving at the French military hospitals at Toul near Nancy and Caen, beginning June 1915--Album of photographs kept by Ursula Hills, VAD, while serving as a nurse in Malta, from 1915--Papers of Wing-Commander Eric Adolphus Blagburn Tooth of the Royal Naval Air Service (subsequently RAF)--Letters home by Private William Clark of the 2nd Middlesex when on service in France and as a prisoner-of-war, 1918--Letters home from Arras and Salonika by Lance-Corporal Oscar Edwards of the London Regiment, 1917--Diary kept by H. Rawson, sailor on board HMS Orbita , mostly on the south and central American station, including records of action, 1916-18--A run of nearly 70 letters by Daniel Rothschild to his future wife, Vera Eeles, 1917-18--Diary of Mrs Anna Lomax, describing a visit to Belgium in the early days of the war, air-raids, etc.--Diary of a French guardsman of the 57th regiment, "Carnet de Route/Campagne 1914-15-16-17-18"--Group of letters concerning deserters, 1914-1919; the Second World War material includes: pilots logs kept by Humphrey Osmond Wrigley, 1929-43, including Spitfires, Hurricanes and Mosquitos flown from Biggin Hill in 1942--An ARP log for Epsom, 1940-41--The diary of Sheelagh, wife of Captain Stopford, describing wartime life in East Anglia in June to December 1941--Three Royal Airforce Notebooks for Workshop and Laboratory Records, c.1941--Royal Canadian Airforce pilot's flying log kept by J.A. Ferguson in 1943-45--Pierre Mempotel's "Memoirs du Matricule 973" covering his military career from 1938 to 1941, diary of etc.--Journal of the port officer at Madras for 1942 ("...I was told this afternoon that we should prepare for loading up a transport to-morrow with inter alia 81 armoured cars weighing just under 5 tons. War News. The Japs are still pressing south in Malaya & have reached a point less than 200 ml. from Singapore...") (26)
Manuscripts relating to the First and Second World War; comprising a group of Great War letters, including some from the Western Front--A Field Message Book, various ephemera, training notes etc.--Letters by a French soldier to his wife, 1914-17--Album of photographs kept by Nurse Helen Canning serving at the French military hospitals at Toul near Nancy and Caen, beginning June 1915--Album of photographs kept by Ursula Hills, VAD, while serving as a nurse in Malta, from 1915--Papers of Wing-Commander Eric Adolphus Blagburn Tooth of the Royal Naval Air Service (subsequently RAF)--Letters home by Private William Clark of the 2nd Middlesex when on service in France and as a prisoner-of-war, 1918--Letters home from Arras and Salonika by Lance-Corporal Oscar Edwards of the London Regiment, 1917--Diary kept by H. Rawson, sailor on board HMS Orbita , mostly on the south and central American station, including records of action, 1916-18--A run of nearly 70 letters by Daniel Rothschild to his future wife, Vera Eeles, 1917-18--Diary of Mrs Anna Lomax, describing a visit to Belgium in the early days of the war, air-raids, etc.--Diary of a French guardsman of the 57th regiment, "Carnet de Route/Campagne 1914-15-16-17-18"--Group of letters concerning deserters, 1914-1919; the Second World War material includes: pilots logs kept by Humphrey Osmond Wrigley, 1929-43, including Spitfires, Hurricanes and Mosquitos flown from Biggin Hill in 1942--An ARP log for Epsom, 1940-41--The diary of Sheelagh, wife of Captain Stopford, describing wartime life in East Anglia in June to December 1941--Three Royal Airforce Notebooks for Workshop and Laboratory Records, c.1941--Royal Canadian Airforce pilot's flying log kept by J.A. Ferguson in 1943-45--Pierre Mempotel's "Memoirs du Matricule 973" covering his military career from 1938 to 1941, diary of etc.--Journal of the port officer at Madras for 1942 ("...I was told this afternoon that we should prepare for loading up a transport to-morrow with inter alia 81 armoured cars weighing just under 5 tons. War News. The Japs are still pressing south in Malaya & have reached a point less than 200 ml. from Singapore...") (26)
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