Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1974 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Photocopy of privately published memoir, 'The Great War, 1914-1818: a former 'Gunner' of the First World War looks back', a detailed account of his military career, 1913-1919, covering mobilisation in Edinburgh, artillery, gas warfare and veterinary training, service with the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front, 1915-1918, notably action around Vimy, May-Jun 1917, Lens, June-Oct 1917, and the Somme front, Feb-Oct 1918, and entry into Lille, Oct 1918, and demobilisation in Brussels, Feb 1919, written in [1974]. Includes reproductions of photographs and extracts from his letters home and his diary.
System of arrangement
Single item.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1894; Gunner in Edinburgh University Battery, OTC; volunteered for active service and commissioned as 2nd Lt, 1 Lowland Bde, Royal Field Artillery, 1914; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1915; served with Royal Field Artillery on Western Front, 1915-1918; taught Church History at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1927, and served as Principal of the College from 1956 to 1963; died 1987.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre in 1981 from originals loaned by the family.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Decorations: MC
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Artillery
- Documents
- Gas warfare
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Medical sciences
- Memoirs
- Military engineering
- Military equipment
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- State security
- Surgery
- Veterinary medicine
- War
- Warfare
- Weapons
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
- Royal Field Artillery (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.