Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1914-1917 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
3 volumes
Scope and content
Bound copies of illustrated French military magazine Le Miroir nos 75-108, 1915. Transcripts of diary entries and letters describing his service in France and Belgium, 1914-1917, notably the Battle of Le Cateau, Aug 1914, first Battle of the Marne, Sep 1914, first Battle of the Aisne, Sep 1914, and first battle of Ypres, Oct-Nov 1914, with related photographs, newspaper cuttings and correspondence, 1914-1920.
System of arrangement
3 volumes
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1893; served with King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, France and Belgium, 1914-1917; killed in action in 1917.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1996.
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 materials
Note
Decorations: MC
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Wars (events)
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Photographs
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.