Account of D Company, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at the Battle of Le Cateau, 1914
Account of the part played in the Battle of Le Cateau by D Company of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 13 Bde, 2 Corps. 7pp
Aerial photographs of Falfemont Farm, France, 1916, showing the impact of bombardment
Aerial photographs of Falfemont Farm, [France] showing the effect of bombardment over a long period.
Christmas cards from military colleagues and units, 1915-1918
Christmas cards from various friends and units on the Western Front.
Copy Italian Army announcement of the award of the Croce di Guerra to Gathorne-Hardy, Aug 1918
Copy of 6 Italian Army order publishing the award of the Croce di Guerra to Gathorne-Hardy, with a covering note from Maj the Hon Piers Walter Legh, General Headquarters, Italy. 2pp.
Correspondence between Gathorne-Hardy, his wife Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy, and his daughter Elizabeth Gathorne-Hardy, throughout World War One, mainly concerning domestic matters, but with some descriptions of events on the Western Front, ... »
Dinner invitations and menus, 1918
Menus and invitations to dinners held by British and Italian units.
GATHORNE-HARDY, Gen the Hon Sir Francis (1874-1949)
Papers relating to service on the Western Front, World War One, 1914-1919 including correspondence referring to campaigns on the Western and Italian Fronts and account of the battle of Le Cateau, Aug 1914; service as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, ... »
Hardy, Sir John Francis Gathorne-, 1874-1949, Knight, General
Letter to Gathorne-Hardy from HM Queen Mary, thanking him for news of Edward Albert Christian George Patrick David, Prince of Wales, who had recently been serving on the staff of Gen Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien on the Western Front. 1p.
Letter to Lady Gathorne-Hardy, [1914], about the imminent departure of troops
Letter to Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy from 'Hugh', informing her that his division will sail from Southampton in a few days. 4pp.
Letter to Lady Gathorne-Hardy, c 1916, from Edward Stanley, Western Front
Letter to Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy from her nephew, [Capt] Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley, Lord Stanley, serving with 1 Bn Grenadier Guards on the Western Front. 2pp.
Letters from Lady Gathorne-Hardy to her mother, 1915 and 1916
Letters from Elizabeth Gathorne-Hardy to her mother, one in French.
List of the staff of Japanese Prince Fushimi, c 1935
List of the suite of His Imperial Highness Prince Fushimi, with their orders. 2pp.
Menu for a dinner held by Spen Valley Chamber of Commerce, 1931
Menu and programme of events for a dinner held by Spen Valley Incorporated Chamber of Commerce, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire.
Notification of Gathorne-Hardy's appointment as GSO2 (Intelligence), 2 Army, BEF, 29 Jul 1914
Mobilisation appointment, giving Gathorne-Hardy the war-time post of General Staff Officer, Grade 2 (Intelligence), 2 Army, BEF (British Expeditionary Force). 1p.
Order of service for a service in York Minster, 1932
Entrance ticket and Order of Service for a service at York Minster, York, to celebrate Military Sunday.
Order of service for a St Paul's Cathedral service, 1935, for George V's Silver Jubilee
Order of Service for a service held at St Paul's Cathedral, London, for the Silver Jubilee of HM King George V. Two copies, one containing an entrance ticket for Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy.
Order of Service for a service in St Paul's Cathedral, London, on the first anniversary of the declaration of World War One.
Order of service for an Armistice Sunday service, St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle, 1931
Order of Service for a service held at the Cathedral Church of St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, on Armistice Sunday. Includes a newspaper cutting of Gathorne-Hardy and the Mayor of Newcastle at the War Memorial, after the service.
Order of service, 1929, for the unveiling of a memorial to Lady Gathorne-Hardy's father, Lord Derby
Order of Service for the unveiling of a memorial to Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby and Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy's father, in the Cathedral Church of Christ, Liverpool, Lancashire.
Order of the Day for Aldershot Command, Oct 1937, on Gathorne-Hardy's retirement
Special Order of the Day for Aldershot Command, on the occasion of Gathorne-Hardy's retirement from the army. Two copies.