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Add MS 48364
- Record Id:
- 040-001957971
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001957959
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000725.0x00005c
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- Add MS 48364
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HUNTER-WESTON PAPERS. Private War Diary. 29th Division and 8th Army Corps. Vol. X. Dardanelles and Gallipoli. 13 Mar. – 31 Dec. 1915.
- Scope & Content:
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Vol. X (ff, xxviii+148). 13 Mar.-31 Dec. 1915, including (f. 135) a parody (typewritten) of the Athanasian Creed, written after the evacuation of Gallipoli, entitled 'After Morning Parade', printed by Sir Compton Mackenzie, First Athenian Memories, 1931, pp. 346-349 (another copy is in Add. MS. 53709, ff. 32-35).
includes:
- f. xxi Lieutenant-Colonel William Cooper Gunn, RAMC: Letter to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1939.
- f. 82 Albert d' Amade, French general: Letter to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1915.: Fr.
- f. 84 Colonel Claude John Perceval: Sketch of the battlefield at Achi Baba, Gallipoli: 1915.
- f. 84 Gallipoli, Turkey: Sketch by Col. C. J. Perceval of the battlefield at Achi Baba: 1915.
- f. 84 Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Col. C. J. Perceval; pencil sketch of the battlefield at Achi Baba, Gallipoli: 1915.
- ff. 86, 103b, 115, 116 Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud, French general: Letters, etc., to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1915, 1918.: Fr.
- ff. 87, 117 Admiral Stuart Nicholson: Letter, etc., to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1915.
- ff. 93, 115 Maurice Camille Bailloud, French general: Letter, etc., to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1915.: Fr.
- f. 95 Charles Alexis Vandanberg, French general: Letter to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1915.: Fr.: Signed.
- f. 135 Satires: 'After Morning Parade', on the military command in the Middle East: 1916.: Typewritten.
- f. 137 Major-General Claude Douglas Hamilton Moore: Card to Lt.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter-Weston: 1915.
Diary entries, mostly handwritten, giving a personal account of Hunter-Weston’s daily life in the army. Includes contents page. Glued into the diary are many photographs, postcards, newspaper cuttings, orders, correspondence, sketches, poems and other mementos. Photographs show Malta, Alexandria, Moudros, Gallipoli landing beaches, Cape Helles and Sedd el Bahr as well as ships, officers, camps, soldiers, prisoners and trenches. Also includes translation of Turkish army orders, ‘Peninsula Press’ news of the sinking of the Lusitania, German propaganda and the text of ‘Gallipoli’, broadcast on the BBC National Programme, 23 Apr 1939.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Europeana Collections 1914-1918 - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001957959
036-001957969
040-001957971 - Is part of:
- Add MS 48355-48368 : HUNTER-WESTON PAPERS. Diaries, etc., of Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston, K.C.B. (b. 1864, d. 1940);…
Add MS 48363-48368 : HUNTER-WESTON PAPERS. Vols. IX-XIV. Private war diaries; 1915-1919. Six volumes.
Add MS 48364 : HUNTER-WESTON PAPERS. Private War Diary. 29th Division and 8th Army Corps. Vol. X. Dardanelles and Gallipoli. 13 Mar. – 31 Dec. 1915. - Hierarchy:
- 032-001957959[0002]/036-001957969[0002]/040-001957971
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 48355-48368
- Record Type (Level):
- File
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- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1915
- End Date:
- 1915
- Date Range:
- 13 Mar 1915-31 Dec 1915
- Era:
- CE
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- Archives and Manuscripts
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