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Major accessions to repositories in 2013 relating to World War 1

Local

Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Service

  • E Mott, nurse: papers and corresp rel to Mott's war service at the National Cartridge and Box Repair Factory 1917 (ACQ20013/062)
  • Henry Sidney Williams, soldier: diary rel to life in the trenches and the battlefield 1916-1924 (ACQ20013/086)
  • First World War Oral History Project, Barking and Dagenham: interviews with local residents, covering life after the war 2013 (BD5/39-41)

Barnsley Archive and Local Studies Department

  • Richard Jones, soldier: records of his time as a First World War soldier c1900-1953 (A/3493/F)

Bristol Record Office

  • John Norman Davey, soldier: war diaries and photographs 1916-1945 (45152)

Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies

  • Alexander Sanderson, major, No 3 Australian Tunnelling Company: papers rel to First World War service incl account of the 2/1st Bucks Battalion at Frommelles, July 1916 1916-1926 (AR 4/2013)

Denbighshire Record Office

  • Arthur Edward Jerman, Temporary Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps: diary 1915-1916 (DD/DM/1827)

Durham County Record Office

  • Unnamed, German prisoner of war: diary 1916 (8391)

East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies Service

  • Leslie France, soldier: diaries and records 1915-1945 (DDX1911)
  • Hull and District Munitions of War Committee: records of Beverley Branch 1916-1919 (DDX1857)

Flintshire Record Office

  • George William Harvey, aviator, Royal Flying Corp: CD copy of BBC interview rel to his experiences on the Somme and as an RFC aviator, birth certificate 1976 (AN4792)
  • John Robert Hughes, soldier and chauffeur: personal papers, photographs and war records c1890-1920 (AN4708)
  • John Hugh Jones, soldier: photograph and other papers c1914-1919 (AN4765)
  • Tegid Eli Gad Smith, sergeant, 1/5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers: personal papers 1917-2003 (AN4793)

Glamorgan Archives (formerly Glamorgan Record Office)

  • Hiram Davies, soldier, 10th Battalion of the Welsh Regiment, Rhondda Division: war service papers, corresp re war pension, roll book that he completed in his position as Sergeant at the end of the war, and photograph of Cwmfelin peace celebration, July 1919 c1918-1941 (D982)

Gwent Archives

  • Michael Williams, historian: papers rel to Monmouthshire and the First World War, together with notes and corresp rel to 1539 muster roll for Monmouthshire c1999-2012 (D5836)

Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

  • Royal Green Jackets Regiment: additional records comprising muster rolls of the Rifle Brigade, 17th London Regiment Tower Hamlets Rifles, 28th London Regiment (Artists Rifles), war diaries, photographs, maps, personal documents, memoirs, scrapbooks 1760-1930 (170A12)
  • Annotated plan of Hazley Down army camp, Twyford c1914-1920 (47A13)

Isle of Wight Record Office

  • William Harold Buckett, soldier: corresp 1914-1915 (2013/054)

Kingston Museum and Heritage Service

  • James Bennett, sergeant, Royal Engineers: diary 1914 (KX533)

Lancashire Archives

  • Josef Zmudz-Florko: personal papers incl diaries, corresp and military records c1914-1970 (DDX3026)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Arthur Richard Bennett, soldier: papers incl letters and photographs rel to his First World War military service 1916 (DE8508)
  • Edwin Lincoln Hall, 2nd Lieutenant Leicestershire Regiment: typescript account drawn from original letters of 3rd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment's time in Mesopotamia and India incl detail account of the action at Sanniayat where he was awarded the Military Cross 1917 (DE8662)
  • Joseph William Poole, conscientious objector: personal papers incl letters and photographs c1891-1972 (DE8657)
  • Shelton George Thomas, soldier, Leicestershire Regiment & Machine Guns Corps: biographical notes incl photographs and facsimile letters with observations on army life c1915-2010 (DE8519)
  • Photographs of Hinckley and Burbage peace celebrations 1919 (DE8538)

Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre

  • Notebook listing wartime hospital casualties, for unidentified hospital 1917-1919 (DE1240)

Norfolk Record Office

  • William Ernest Capps, soldier: letters to his mother rel to service in Essex Regiment during World War I 1916-1918 (MC 2969)
  • Joseph Emms, soldier 5th Norfolk Regiment: written account describing his regiment's attack on Gaza during First World War 1917 (MC 2914)

North Yorkshire County Record Office

  • W T B Fish: First World War diary c1915 (Z.1421)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Charles Stanley Cooper: records incl personal papers from First World War and Second World War 20th cent (8317)

Redbridge Local Studies and Archives

  • Alfred John Key, soldier, City of London Yeomanry: diary rel to First World War action in Egypt, Gallipoli and Salonika 1914-1919 (249)

Sheffield Archives

  • Manuscript First World War poems by John (Jack) Arthur Rodgers 1916 (2013/83)

Somerset Heritage Centre

  • Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) (13th Foot): additional service records First World War 1914-1918 (DD\SLI)
  • Documents photographs, glass plate negatives and research papers rel to Evercreech in First World War 1914-1918 (A\DSE)

Surrey History Centre

  • Cecil Haven, prisoner of war, ceramics salesman: papers rel to his First World War imprisonment as a civilian prisoner at Ruhleben and his work as an overseas representative for Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd 1915-2013 (9165)
  • Harry Francis, Wellington, Private, East Surrey Regiment: papers and photographs 1915-1922 (ESR)
  • East Surrey Regiment: photograph album recording 1/6 Battalion in Kuldana 1915 (ESR)

West Glamorgan Archive Service

  • Swansea Library First World War Museum Collection: photographs, posters, ephemera c1914-1918 (SI WL 1-9)

West Sussex Record Office

  • George Matheson Butt, Captain: corresp sent to his father, George Walter Butt of Wilbury, during service in First World War 1914-1919 (Acc 16999)
  • Reginald Dalton, Grand Fleet Flotilla Leader, Royal Navy: photographs and letters rel to Dalton, who served on the H.M.S Tipperary, sunk on 31st May 1916 early 20th cent (Acc 17313)
  • Frederick Madgwick, 4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment: diary from service during First World War 1914-1916 (Acc 17291)
  • Charles Donald Stuart, Royal Sussex Regiment: papers 1917-1919 (Acc 17134)
  • Private Charles Herbert William Rumsey, Royal Sussex Regiment: army material rel to Rumsey 1917-1989 (Acc 17335)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

  • Berry family of Keighley: letters of thanks in reply to letters and parcels sent out to soldiers during First World War 1914-1918 (WYB591)
  • Bernard Keegan, chemist: corresp regarding patent application, incl letter from the War Office regarding dyeing khaki 1914 (WYB597)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees

  • Benjamin Hartley, driver: war diaries, photographs and papers 1917-1919 (WYK1725)

Wigan Archives Service

  • Owen Thomas: personal records from time serving in First World War 1914-1918 (Acc. 2013/39)
  • Owen Thomas, private: First World War diary 1914-1916 (Acc. 2013/2)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Albert Walters, private in the 1st Hampshire Regiment: letters 1913-1914 (Add MS 89027)

Imperial War Museum Department of Documents

  • Sidney G Lewis, soldier: papers rel to his enlistment at 12 years old, and service in the Machine Gun Corps during First World War 1915-1916 (Documents.23610)
  • Oliver Thornycroft, engineer: corresp, photographs, reports and blueprints rel to work as an engineer during the First and Second World Wars 1914-1945 (Documents.23095)
  • Taunton Elliott Viney, Flight Lieutenant DSO: corresp to family, papers and letters of condolence rel to his death while serving as a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service during First World War 1912-1915 (Documents.23399)

Island Archives, Guernsey

  • John Mollett, private, First Royal Guernsey Light Infantry: letters home to his wife in Guernsey with photograph 1914-1918 (AQ 1313 (01-09))

National Army Museum Templer Study Centre

  • Robertson family: papers of Captain Frederick Robertson, Royal Artillery (c1813-1861); his son Major-General Charles Duesbury Robertson, Royal Engineers (c1850-1872); and Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Robertson, Royal Engineers (c1885-1927). Also includes the papers of Captain Geoffrey Broughton James Kellie, Royal Artillery (c1915-1932) 1813-1932 (2013-10-25)
  • John Bonamy Rhys Challen, Lieutenant: papers rel to service during First World War 1914-1918 (2013-04-3)
  • Harry Robinson, Brigadier: corresp to Dorothy Harris from Robinson and Charles W Meredith, Royal Air Force, rel to the Battle of the Somme, Passchendaele, Ypres and the Battle of Cambrai 1914-1918 (2013-01-1)
  • WJ Wood, 2nd Lieutenant: papers and corresp rel to service in France during First World War 1915 (2013-05-1)

National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library

  • Albert Percy Bishop, ship purser: records incl photographs of First World War hospital ships, work journals, corresp and logs 1900-1947 (D/APB)

Royal Air Force Museum, Department of Research and Information Services

  • John Chapman, 2nd Lieutenant, pilot, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force: personal papers incl diaries, Prisoner of War journal and photographs 1917-1919 (X006-4186)
  • Sir Lawrence Arthur Pattinson, Air Marshal: official and personal papers, incl diaries, flying log book and certificates 1915-1945 (X006-7095)

Special

Royal College of Nursing Archives

  • Beatrice Jane Tanner, nurse: diaries rel to her service as a Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve nurse during First World War 1914-1916 (C/737)

University

Bangor University, Archives and Special Collections

  • Henry Owen, private, Devonshire Regiment and Royal Engineers: diary 1915-1916 (2013/4)

King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

  • Sir Charles Alexander Anderson, Lieutenant General: papers rel to military career, incl service in India, Afghanistan, Burma and on the Western Front during the First World War 1874-1920 (C A Anderson)
  • William Edward Grey, Captain: papers and corresp rel to his service in the Aircraft Equipment Directorate (1916-1918) 1916-1918 (Grey)

Leeds University Library, Special Collections

  • Richard Leslie Townhill, translator: corresp, newsletters and photographs rel to Townhill's internment in the First World War 1912-1965 (SPCOLL/2013/16)

Newcastle University: Special Collections

  • Thomas Baker Brown, private, Northumberland Fusiliers: letters, notebooks, maps, artefacts and printed material rel to his experiences during the First World War and as a Prisoner of War 1910-1970 (TBB)

Oxford University: Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House

  • Hubert Tyler Harrington, administrator: memoirs rel to his life in Africa, incl emigration to South Africa, travel to Mtabeleland and administration and service during First World War (1890-1918) 1938 (7215)

Sheffield University Library

  • John Lewis Anderton Grout, Royal Army Medical Corps: First World War military service papers, trench maps and corresp 1913-1964 (MS 433)

University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

  • Vera Moody, pianist and educationalist: letters incl eye-witness account of events during the Russian revolution of February 1917 1917-2011 (MS866)