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Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Military History |
Local
- 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)
- 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)
National
- Henry Watts Russell de Coëtlogon (1839-1890), commander of Khartoum garrison: papers 1858-1904 (Add MS 89463)
- 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)
- Selkirkshire militia: papers on the raising of the militia 1794-1808 (Acc.14235)
- John Roger (fl 811-1813), observer of Edinburgh militia: notebook on the movements of the Edinburgh militia 1811-1813 (Acc.14234)
- Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827): letters to 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville on military matters 1794-1825 (Acc.14216)
- York and Lancaster Regiment: records incl army record book, containing declarations of the court of inquiry assembled at Pontefract (Headquarters of the York and Lancaster Regiment) for the purpose of reporting the illegal absence of soldiers serving with the regiment 1924-1958 (578-K:Add1872)
University
- William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880-1959), Field Marshal: detailed diaries, with memoirs, and related papers 1880-1959 (Acc 3925)
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