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Major accessions to repositories in 2003 relating to Military History |
Local
- No 2 platoon 'F' Company, 20th Cheshire Battalion Home Guard, Mollington: records incl enrolment papers, reports on conscripts, secret papers, prosecutions and disciplinary measures, accounts, transfers and discharges, reports, leaflets and other misc papers 1941-44 (D 6473)
- Carlisle Veterans Association: records incl minutes, accounts 1938-2002 (DSO 230)
- Captain Douglas D Stokes, Royal Artillery Officer and prisoner of war: diary transcript 1940-45 (DD/DM/1492)
- Arthur Bryan, rifleman: corresp 1914-15 (D5948)
- Durham Light Infantry (addnl): records 19th-20th cent
- London Rifle Brigade (addnl): records incl newsletters 1939-88 (Mss 33982-5)
- Martin family of St Albans: letters received from a
member of the Royal Flying Corps 1918-19 (Acc 3988)
- Elijah George Bitten: letters and papers rel to his
service in the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment 1870-1922 (Acc 3986)
- Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, North
Hertfordshire Division: corresp, circulars and posterss 1915-19 (Acc 3980)
- Munro-Ferguson family of Novar (addnl): family and estate corresp and accounts incl further papers of Sir Hector Munro and his campaigns in India and papers rel to elections in Ross-shire 1832-36 1760-1898 (HCA/D 538)
- Ralph Mollet, Bailiff's Secretary, Jersey (addnl): diary kept during the Occupation 1940-45 (JA/828)
- Colne Veterans Club: records 1942-55 (DDX 752 acc 9281)
- Cyril Morris, Royal Flying Corps, Thetford: photograph album c1916 (ACC 2003/115)
- Ex-Artillerymens Association, Grimsby branch: minutes 1929-37 (1206)
- Sunnyside Veterans Club, Coatbridge: minutes, accounts, papers (U121)
- Oldham Local Militia: records 1812-14 (Acc 2003-002)
- Sergeant John Brunton Daykins VC (1883-1933): burgess ticket and related material (SBA/220)
- North Somerset Yeomanry: corresp and registers 1790-1970 (DD/NSY Acc M/1020)
- Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) (13th Foot) (addnl): misc records 1800-2000 (DD/SLI Acc M/909)
- Herbert Henry Bowerman, private: letters to his mother from the Western Front 1917 (7361)
- Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment: records, incl those of predecessor regiments c1702-1999 (7502)
- Private J Barker, 16th Platoon, 2/7th Battalion, Manchester Regiment: photographs and postcards c1900-29 (Acc 3055)
- Thomas Henry Conroy, Manchester Regiment, Pioneer Corps & Royal Army Service Corps: army service records incl certificates, soldiers release book and corresp 1925-77 (Acc 3077)
- Private Joseph Hughes, 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment: papers incl soldier's small book, mobilization and discharge papers, postcards and corresp c1905-26 (Acc 3058)
- Lieutenant John Henry Loftus Reade, Manchester Regiment (addnl): papers incl his writings and papers rel to his education c1900-14 (Acc 3059)
- Sergeant George Snape, 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment: papers incl pay book, certificates and postcards 1915-35 (Acc 3079/2)
- 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment: misc records 1918-25 (Acc 3064/4)
- Bewicke family of Hallaton Hall (addnl): corresp and papers of Samuel Briggs Cookson in the army of the East India Co and Indian Army; papers of Honoria Bewicke (Sister Augustine of Salonika); further family papers c1842-1980 (DE6343)
- Lieutenant RE Pochin, Leicestershire Regiment: letters 1914-18 (DE6401)
- Bombardier Edward Sleath, Royal Garrison Artillery: personal papers rel to service (DE6526)
- 2nd Lieutenant William Jefferson Wilkinson, Leicestershire Regiment: biographical notes 1887-1915 (DE6439)
- Royal Leicestershire Regiment: charitable trust accounts, World War I trench maps 1914-2002 (DE6377)
- Harry Flinders Wishaw, architect and surveyor: diary and papers rel to military service in France 1914-18
- George Derbyshire, serviceman: war diaries and letters rel to the 42nd East Lancashire Division 1940-45 (Acc 4156)
National
- Colonel Cecil John Lyons Allanson: diary describing the Gallipoli campaign whilst commanding the 6th Gurkha Rifles 1915 (F479)
- General Sir Samuel James Browne (1824-1901), Bengal Army: corresp and papers (0304/01)
- Private Samuel Gaskill: papers rel to service in the Indian Mutiny 1855-75 (F468)
- Colonel Terence Henry Hight: diaries and notebooks, incl those of his grandfather General Sir Charles Hight and great-uncle General William Henry Whitlock, rel to service in Indian Army and Madras Army 1842-1922 (F471)
- Major-General George Arthur James Leslie: copies of letters rel to situation and military operations in Iraq 1920 (F462)
- Lieutenant Charles Frederick Liardet: diary rel to First China War 1842 (Photo Eur 480)
- Captain Sir John Edward Maurice Rowland: diary and letters rel to the retreat from Burma 1942 (F481)
- East India Co (addnl): regimental accounts 1777-85 (0304/26)
- Edmund Henry Hyndman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, Field Marshal: letters to Major CW Battine, military correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, rel mainly to the Palestine and Syria campaign 1905-18 (NAM 2003-02-250)
- Major Ernest Ambler, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment): corresp and papers rel to World War I service with Royal Flying Corps and as a prisoner of war, and to World War II service with West Yorkshire Regiment Depot c1914-45 (NAM 2003-01-169)
- Lieutenant John Michael Gregson Halstead, Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards): two journals rel to service in North Africa 1941-42 (NAM 2003-01-62)
- Rev Hedley William Mountney Handford, military chaplain and vicar: papers and journal rel to World War I service in Egypt and Palestine and to his civilian career (NAM 2003-02-323)
- Major William Henry Hare, 51st Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry): corresp and papers, rel mainly to personal and family issues 1813-53 (NAM 2003-05-1)
- Captain RB Hawley, 89th Regiment of Foot: papers, mainly family letters rel to Crimean War 1854-56 (NAM 2003-01-38)
- Private Arthur Pye, 2nd Battalion Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment): bible and diary rel to service during Boer War 1899-1902 (NAM 2003-02-234)
- Stafford M Adye-Curran, doctor: diaries (3) describing experiences in RAMC in France and India c1914-18
- De Pree family of Haddington: album of corresp, papers and Western Front photographs, mostly from the Haig family and incl letters of Field Marshal Earl Haig 1912-36 (Acc.12263)
- Lieutenant David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery: war diaries and sketchbook, North Africa and Italy 1943-46 (Acc.12181)
- Hugh Purves Crosbie, writer as John Carrick: corresp and papers rel to his war service 1939-45 (Acc.12197)
- Arthur Gandon, radio and radar officer: papers rel to service during World War I and qualifications as a radio and radar officer 1932-47 (DX/2127)
- John McDonald, merchant navy seaman: papers and photographs rel to his experience on 'San Florentino', Eagle Oil & Shipping Co tanker torpedoed in World War II, incl letters tracing those involved 1941-86 (DX/2098)
- Alan Christopher Deere (1917-1995), air commodore: papers (X003-2753)
- Sir Christopher Neil Foxley-Norris (1917-2003), air chief marshal: papers (X003-3407)
- Group Captain Sir Gordon Hamish Martin Pirie (1918-2003): papers
- Lithographic design drawings (22) of the Neale Aerial Warship 1917-18 (MSP 69)
Special
- R B Tritton, Faversham: memoirs of a motor tour of France and Belgium as a guest of the Red Cross 1919 (CLG/2003/03)
- Private Richard Ernest Crompton, 93rd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps: diaries, photographs and ephemera 1915-18 (MS.8039-8041)
- Alexander Kincaid Handasyde, 1/3 Lowland Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps: photographs and memorabilia rel to non-medical service in Egypt, Gallipoli and the Middle East 1914-39 (MS.7912)
University
- Colonel Bertram Henry Samuel Romilly: letters from the Sudan and
France 1912-15 (MS Add. 9656)
- Edmund Henry Hyndman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo, Field Marshal (addnl): transcripts of letters (3) rel to Palestine campaign 1917
- Ivor Bowen, aeronautical engineer (addnl): research papers 1963-65
- James Archibald Ferrier (1854-1934), Major General: memoirs rel to service incl in Afghanistan, Nile Expedition and Sierra Leone
- Colonel Philip Ronald Gold, Royal Artillery: account of his escape from Singapore 1942
- Group Captain James Henry Iremonger: papers incl material rel to intelligence and bombing raid results in France and Germany 1943-50
- Jean Miller, Lady Hamilton, wife of General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton: diaries 1904-06
- Lieutenant Colonel John Mackinlay: papers rel to peacekeeping and relief work, chiefly by the United Nations 1979-2000
- Colonel Harold Morrey Salmon, Royal Air Force: papers rel to service in North Africa, Sicily and Mediterranean, incl war diaries 1942-45
- Sir George Wilfred Turner, civil servant (addnl): humorous account of Ministry of Supply dining club, with group photographs incl of members of the Army Council c1943-54
- Colonel Leslie William Wright (addnl): text of Golden Jubilee lecture on the fall of Calais and Wright's escape and rescue by HMC Gulzar 2002
- Charles James Bagenal: corresp, diary and photographs rel to the Anglo-Boer War, the East African Campaign and Tanganyika, South Africa and Ireland (MSS. Afr. s. 2351)
- Walter Shearsmith Barley, soldier in the Anglo-Boer War: letters to his mother and sisters 1900-01 (MSS. Afr. s. 2369)
- Arthur Alec Goschen (1880-1975): letters written during his service in the Anglo-Boer War (MSS. Afr. s. 2376)
- Donald Hugh Tomlin, Ministry of Defence scientist: papers rel to the development of Radar 20th cent (MS 260)
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