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Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to War and Conflict |
Local
- Sancreed Platoon Home Guard: log book recording equipment 1940-1943 (AD3013)
- Group photograph of 1/4 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI), India 1914-1918 (AD3051)
- Fowler family (fl1878-1977) of Eskdale: family papers incl corresp, incl wartime letters (some sent from Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War Camp), photographs, family history and pedigrees, Home Guard papers, sketches and newspaper cuttings 20th cent (YDX 753)
- Brook Street Methodist Chapel, Derby: First World War Roll of Honour c1918 (D7528)
- Clayton family of Peak Forest: military and colonial service memoirs, passports, photographs, correspondence and newspaper cuttings 1835-1958 (D8365)
- Clay Cross Company Ltd, coal masters and colliery proprietors: account ledger (1912-1929) incl accounts for [First World] War Wage and Skegness Miners Home, Land and Minerals Ledger (1970-1977) c1912-1977 (D5375)
- National Service (Royal Air Force) Association: material incl photograph of RAF aeroplane and armament, Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down, incl Dave Brady and Ronald Maddison, from Durham, who died at Porton Down; Astral Magazine 1953-2021 (D/X 2257/1-2)
- Springbok - Brighton Bulletin: magazine of South African troops billeted in Brighton and Hove 1945 (13736)
- Royal Air Force Network and Radio Station: PSI posters events, annual athletic championships programmes, PSI radio song request form, correspondence and papers rel to RAF network project, minutes of a welfare meeting, minutes of PSI meeting, script for first broadcasting of station band 1947 (D15445)
- Leicestershire Royal Horse Artillery and Ammunition Column and 315 (North Midland) Medium Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (TA): war diaries, associated records, correspondence and historical notes collected by Lt. Col. W. G. Fox in preparation of a brochure to aid recruitment c1916-1948 (DE10143)
- Cowlishaw and Hewitt family of Thornton and surrounds: photographs and postcards of local scenes and reflecting military service & First World War [late 19th-mid 20th cent] nd (DE10204)
- H Backhaus, Heing Epfurst[?] and G Budde, German prisoners of war: sketches recording life in POW Camp 215 in Italy obtained by Raynard Storrer, Artillery Officer from Barlestone Area 1945 (DE10244)
- Unnamed group of "ex-military girls": digital slideshow commemorating servicemen and women from North West Leicestershire marking the centenary of the end of the First World War 2018 (DE10185)
- Shady Lane Prisoner of War Camp, Stoughton: German Prisoners' letters and photographs c1945-1948 (DE10111)
- Lieut Francis Edward O'Brien (fl1939-1945), 2/5th Leicestershire Regiment and Prisoner of War in Italy: letter to his wife in Leyton, London, describing mundane camp life at 'Campo Concentramento PG No 66' in Italy 1943 (DE10275)
- Leicestershire Home Guard: photograph album including photographs of camp and sports c1944 (DE10106)
- George Wells (fl1941-1946), RAMC: typescript memoir of his time during Second World War as a conscript with the Royal Army Medical Corps at Leeds, Catterick camp, the Middle East, and in Italy c2000 (DE10174)
- Professor Keith Oldham (fl2011-2014): "The Great War Roll Of Honour For Houghton-on-the-Hill" incl brief details of the parents and family, military service and death c2011-2014 (DE10281)
- Newspaper cuttings rel to the Covid-19 Pandemic (April 2020 - August 2021) and a file of research, incl letters and postcards rel to Private George Harry Scott (1890-1915), 1/4 Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, compiled by his nephew 1915-2021 (DE10289)
- Clayton & Shuttleworth Ltd, agricultural engineers, Lincoln: photographs of the Lincoln Aircraft Works 1917-1918 (MISC DON 2114)
- Copy photograph of the Womens' Land Army after fruit picking and composite photograph celebrating the role of women during the war (Inspire Picture Archive) 2020 (Acc 9829)
- Copy photographs of Second World War soldiers Albert Cast, George Humphrey, James White, Ronald Corner and images relating to the Sherwood Foresters in Burma and Polish forces in West Africa (Inspire Picture Archive) 2020 (Acc 9871)
- Military Red Cross Hospital, Moss Side, Maghull: transcript of visitors' book (1915-1918) [Digital file] 2021 (Acc 10089)
- Photographs of VE Day street parties in Kimberley, Retford and 75th anniversary celebrations (Inspire Picture Archive) 2020 (Acc 9824-28, 9830, 9836-42, 9845-51, 9862, 9882)
- Fred Wetherill, (fl1939-1945), military serviceman & photographer, India and Far East: images (21) of India and the Far East during Second World War showing air force base, prisoners of war at work, air sea rescue launch, and other service personnel (Inspire Picture Archive) 2020 (Acc 9863)
- Owen Kearns, (1892-1986), soldier: Kearns family papers incl photographs, soldier's pay books, medical records, telegram, letter from King George and soldier's release book 1914-1947 (M326)
- MacGregor Family, Balbeggie, Perth: letters (5) from Joseph MacGregor, P.O.W in Stalag VIII B, to his sister Margaret MacGregor, Balbeggie, Perth (1941-1944); poem written to Balbeggie Canteen by Lieutenant-Sergeant J.W Shepherd, R.A of Manchester; photographs and newspaper cuttings 1939-1945 (21/02)
- Edward Heron-Allen (1861-1943), English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar: The Great War Journal of a Visit to the Front, Oct 1918 c1919 (19946)
- Ernest Clegg (1876-1954), cartographer, graphic artist, and calligrapher: map produced by the WI showing crops grown in Sussex during the Second World War 1940-1945 (20034)
- Billinge Hospital: First World War nurse's diary comprising sketch and signature book compiled by nurses working and soldiers recuperating at Billinge Hospital, Wigan, and military service book 1914-1918 (Acc. 2021/5)
National
- James Russell (d1856), army officer, Royal Dragoons: diary of the Flanders Campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars 1793-1796 (Add MS 89453)
- Soldiers' References: letters of enquiry addressed to the East India Company Military Department in London 1839-1853 (Mss Eur F749)
- Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon (1916-1986), Welsh broadcaster and BBC executive: letters home recording his experiences as a teenager in Germany in 1934; travelling in Austria, Italy and France in 1938; his enlistment to The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) at Canterbury in 1940; posting to 12th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers in Yorkshire, and then to 1st Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles 1934-1945 (Documents.27465)
- Alan Murray (fl1970-1990), journalist: interview rel to his career, which covered the period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland 1970s-1990s (37020)
- White Royal Navy Handover Ensign used on Liberation Day and flown over the Ship and Crown Hotel, with copy of the signed Instrument of German Forces Unconditional Surrender of the Channel Islands, 09 May 1945 1945 (BF 208-37)
- Frank Falla (1911-1983), author, journalist, newspaper editor: diaries kept during the German occupation and rel to his imprisonment and later deportation to Germany for his involvement in the production of the underground newsletter GUNS (Guernsey Underground News Service) that provided news to the people of Guernsey 1940-1949 (AQ 1167/18 to 27)
- Elina Hellyer (fl1940-1943), of Mont Cochon: transcription of Occupation diary 1940-1943 (JA/3660)
- Arabella Suzette Balleine (fl1940-1945), of Jerssey: Occupation diaries and newspaper cutting books believed to belong to Balleine who lived at Belleville, St Saviour's Road during the Occupation 1940-1945 (JA/3717)
- Marie Sandeman (fl1940-1945), of Jersey: Occupation diary, with scanned copy and English translation 1940-1945 (JA/3814)
- James Thurlby (1920-2002), soldier and journalist: papers, incl handwritten and typed diaries, letters, articles and poems, press cuttings and photographs, mostly rel to the Second World War 1939-1945 (2021-06-11)
- George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800-1888,) Field Marshal: letters and papers rel to his early military career, letters and documents rel to his service in the Crimean War; documents rel to his subsequent career and struggle over his reputation incl letters on his perspective on the Charge of the Light Brigade 1820-1888 (2021-06-13)
- Native Refugee Department (O.R.C): hand compiled return covering all refugee/concentration camps (34). Rel to the Boer War (1899-1902) 1902 (2021-01-12)
- Captain Vernon Smith (c1920-2008), Royal Army Medical Corps, Regimental Medical Officer 126 (Highland) Field Regiment RA: mixed collection incl medical instruments; medals; photographs; certificates; letters; diary 1939-1945 (2021-08-6)
- National Army Museum: Oral history interview with Col Ashleigh Boreham, Royal Army Medical Corps, rel to his service history, incl his contribution to the British Army's role as part of the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic 1970-2020 (2021-01-1)
- National Army Museum: Oral history interview with Col Alison McCourt, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, rel to her service in Iraq, Sierra Leone and in the UK, covering her experience of the Novichok poisonings, and her contribution to the British Army's role as part of the UK's response to the COVID-19 pandemic 1970-2020 (2021-01-2)
- Photographs, papers and posters rel to Long Kesh Detention Centre / Maze Prison, Northern Ireland 1976 (2021-12-4)
- Margaret Walker Bevan (1883-1951), nurse: photographs, postcards and diary rel to her experiences in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service, India and Mesopotamia 1916-1917 (2021-06-9)
- Margaret Adair Duncan (fl1914-1918), Voluntary Aid Detachment: autograph book at Bangour Hospital during the First World War c1914-1918 (Acc.14287)
- Duncan Black (fl1943-1945), Royal Air Force officer: corresp between Black and his parents 1943-1945 (Acc.14284)
- Tomás O Donohoe (fl1916), member of the Irish Citizen Army: ruled notebook comprising a hospital list for Frongoch Camp Nr Bala, with date and names of the patients and their prisoner number, following the Easter Rising 1916 1916 (NLW MS 24185)
- Ulster Human Rights Watch, advocacy organisation for victims and survivors of the conflict in Northern Ireland: reports rel to the experiences of individuals who were impacted by the Troubles 2021 (D4791/1/1-9)
- Sergeant Andrew Cook Baron (fl1943-1953): Air Gunner flying log book 1943-1953 (X008-5367)
University
- William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880-1959), Field Marshal: detailed diaries, with memoirs, and related papers 1880-1959 (Acc 3925)
- James Kemp Nairne (b1923), Major: account of his military service, 1944-1952, incl service in ranks with Seaforth Highlanders, North West Europe, the Normandy landings, service in Malaya, and service in Aden. Also a series of ms diaries, [CLOSED], with correspondence and other related items rel to his diplomatic service as a Queen's Messenger 1944-1988 (Acc 3911)
- Julian Howard Atherden Thompson (b1934), Major General: papers incl orders, maps and photographs rel to his service as Commander of 3 Commando Brigade, Falklands War; texts of lectures on the Falklands War and on military history 1982-2019 (Acc 3920)
- Sir Owen Cecil Kirkpatrick Corrie MC (1882-1965) jurist: digital copies of papers and photographs from his service in Palestine, firstly as a soldier in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and then his service as in the judiciary of Palestine 1917-1936 (GB165-0756)
- Edward Joseph Daniels (fl1940-1945): Second World War diaries 1941-1945 (MS1003)
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