Pages from the social news section of The Onlooker magazine, and a page from The Sphere magazine showing a painting by Harrington Mann, 'Bobby and Bayard, the sons of Robert Livingstone Clarkson, Esq.' exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1930
Pamphlet issued during the First World War giving instructions on the following aspects of serving in the trenches: taking over and handing over trenches; trench routine; work on trenches; action in case of attack; precautions against gas; and communications, with appendices giving a list of tren...
Notes which have been obtained from other formations on the present fighting on the Somme
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Typescript notes giving information gained through the experience of fighting by other British Army units during the First World War, and distributed to company and platoon commanders
Letters to Isobel Agnes Garrod from her husband William Francis Garrod
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17 letters with envelopes (numbered 1, 6 to 8, 11 to 13, 16, 30 to 32, 34, 45 to 47 and 76 to 77) from William Francis Garrod while on active service with the 10th Indian Division in the Middle East, to his wife at Ranikhet and Naini Tal, United Provinces. The letters are mostly concerned with...
Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action, issued by the General Staff
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Pamphlet issued during the First World War to assist Platoon Commanders in training their platoons in fighting, and includes diagrams on the best methods for attacking trenches and in open warfare