Collection PARKES - PARKES, Corporal Thomas (1888-1971)

Key Information

Reference code

PARKES

Title

PARKES, Corporal Thomas (1888-1971)

Date(s)

  • 1916 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 volume

Scope and content

Diary covering his service in France, notably his involvement in gas attacks on German troops near St Omer, 1916.

System of arrangement

single item

General Information

Name of creator

(1888-1971)

Biographical history

Served with O Company, 4 Bn, Special Bde, Royal Engineers, France, 1916; married Gertrude Clegg, 1917; worked as a teacher after the war; Head teacher in a school in Lowestoft, 1939; died in 1971.

Custodial history

Purchased by the Centre in 1987.

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.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled 1996

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area