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Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Military History |
Local
- Every family of Egginton: commission of Sir Henry Every, Bart, appointing him Lieutenant Colonel and Captain of the Regiment of Foot 1667 (D5236)
- Ilkeston Borough Council: Park Cemetery notices of interment (c1892-1993 gaps), mortuary registers (1937-1978), war graves registers (1939-1947), register of notifications to registrar (1949-1972), memorial design forms (1962-1968), deed of grant register (1892-1912, 1923-1932) 1892-1993 (D1385)
- Brian Pennington, (fl1942-1943), 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Engineers: war diary and transcript c1942-1943 (DDX 3634/ACC13195)
- Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), Syston: group photograph of personnel c1943-1945 (DE10352)
- John William Ewart Gladstone 'Jack' Cooper, (1914-1995), Special Air Service (SAS): digital copy of his memoirs (fifth man to join the original SAS & experiences in Second World War) c1914-1995 (DE10419)
- Sapper Joseph Collinton Farren, (1893-1918), Royal Engineers: photograph in Frist World War uniform, photographs of medals (including Albert Medal) and memorial window in Carlton Church and correspondence with Royal Engineers Museum relating to research into his life and medals c1914-1995 (DE10419)
- Lieut AB Gibaud, (fl1896-2001), 1st and 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment: photographs & papers 1896-2001 (DE10418)
- CQMS Harold Vickerman Hanson, (1887-1968), King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry: oral history recording of his recollections of his First World War service recorded by his grandson, Anthony Boulton 2015 (DE10305)
- Loughborough Carillon War Memorial: photographs of construction, installation of bells by John Taylor & Co and opening c1922-1923 (DE10455)
- Autograph book containing accounts of wounded soldiers recovering at Belvoir Castle 1914-1915 (DE10313)
- William Widdowson, (fl1915-1919), soldier, Anstey: photographs, postcards and papers c1915-1919 (DE10460)
- Pepper family, Kegworth: records including World War II journals of Ronald Alec Pepper and his model shop, Apex Craft in Leicester 20th cent (DE10460)
- Silk postcards sent to Nancy & Lucy Moore of Leicester c1914-1918 (DE10432)
- Brigadier Charles Esmond Morrison (1893-1966), Leicestershire and East Surrey Regiments: photographs, obituaries and news cuttings c1930-1966 (DE10464)
- Leicestershire Imperial Yeomanry: photographs of camps at home and in South Africa c1900-1905 (DE10299)
- Coging Family of Nottingham: documents and photographs relating to Stanley Coging's service in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) during the Second World War including time as a prisoner of war, clothes rationing books and family biographical information c1940-2021 (DD/2829)
- Maps of Dukeries Training Area and Proteus Camp 1972-1974 (DD/2840)
- G Keast of Devonport and Stoke, Plymouth: diaries and a notebook which record air raids on Plymouth 1940-1944 (4415)
- Merchant Navy Monument, Plymouth, Committee: minutes, photographs; press releases; corresp and fundraising paperwork, and a paper programme for the dedication 2014-2021 (4388)
- Gunter Beyer (fl1942-1954), of Plymouth: papers relating to military service, being a German Prisoner of War in Devon and Cornwall, naturalisation as British Citizen after the Second World War, and photograph of the Duke of Edinburgh's s visit to Bickleigh Camp in 1954 1942-1954 (4425)
- George Bellamy (fl1788-1863) of Plymouth: letters and personal papers incl souvenirs of his time as a prisoner of war in France and papers rel to his election as Mayor in 1811 1788-1863 (4395)
- Doren Chamberlain (fl1947-1950): corresp with former German prisoner of war 1947-1950 (4417H)
National
- Lieutenant William Henry Watson (1834-1899), Royal Artillery: letters to his mother from Crimea, together with documents rel to his subsequent military career 1852-1869 (Add MS 89549)
- Captain John Wallbridge (fl1940-2019): research papers relating to the losses of HMS Charybdis and HMS Limbourne during the Second World War c1940-2019 (AQ 1694 to AQ 1696)
- David Le Conte (1940-2020), astronomer: recording of interview of Raymond Falla, member of the Controlling Committee during the German Occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940-1945 c1970-1990 (2022-037)
- John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705-1782), general: letters received, on mostly military matters 1753-1771 (Acc.14341)
University
- Sir Charles Keightley (1901-1974), knight, general: personal and military papers 20th cent (KGLY, acc 2235)
- Alan Everitt, (1926-2008), historian: papers including correspondence, research notes, diaries and draft manuscripts c1950-2008 (Acc 2022/17)
- Florence Alice Ellis (fl1915-1918), volunteer nurse, First World War: autograph book incl drawings and signatures of family, friends and servicemen at the North Evington War Hospital and the booklet 'Words from the Wounded', edited by Vicki Burke in 2022 c1915-2022 (Acc 2022/8)
- Buchanan family of Craigend Castle, Milngavie: family and estate papers including correspondence, diaries, press cuttings, photographs, political, diplomatic and military papers c1910-2012 (Bu)
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