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FIRST WORLD WAR:
TENTH BATTALION 42ND (EAST LANCASTER) DIVISION 126TH MANCHESTER REGIMENT |
Size: 2.0 linear feet
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Restrictions: None
Content note:
The collection consists of a series of nine newspaper clippings in addition
to a captain's notebook, three albums or scrapbooks, and other war memorabilia.
The nine clippings trace the movements of the 10th Battalion from induction
in England in 1914 through training in Egypt, service on the Gallipoli Peninsula,
the Sinai Desert, France and Flanders, to the homecoming in 1918. Also included
are Captain J. C. S. Rowbotham's Commission, an 8" x 9" photograph
of him on his horse, and other souvenirs of his military service. His photograph
album contains pictures of members of his family, the soldiers, camps and breastworks,
a camel with rider mired down on the sands of Sinai, and a printed summary of
the services rendered by the 10th Battalion. The other scrapbooks, i.e., those
of Ralph Musk Ridley and Harold George Vickerage, embody clippings, proposals
for regulation of patrol work, ration books and cards, menus, and many other
items, including a typed account of the Ypres operations in 1917.
Acquisition: Purchased from Sotheby's, London Branch, in 1985
Processed by: A. German, February 1986; JEF, 5-26-1998
