Description
Object description
171 ms letters (531pp) from her home in Liverpool to a cousin-by-marriage (later her sweetheart and husband), a captain serving with the 7th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (56th Brigade, 19th Division) and the 1/4th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (164th Brigade, 55th Division), documenting their hesitant romance (October 1916 - February 1919) and including details of her nursing duties at a local military convalescent hospital (October 1916 - November 1918), her voluntary work in the canteen of a local soldiers' camp (known as 'Sniggery'), civilian conditions in Liverpool during the First World War especially for the upper classes, her week's 'holiday' with a girlfriend working for the Women's Land Army in Staffordshire (February 1918), and her perception of his experiences of trench warfare and the progress of the war.
Content description
171 ms letters (531pp) from her home in Liverpool to a cousin-by-marriage (later her sweetheart and husband), a captain serving with the 7th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (56th Brigade, 19th Division) and the 1/4th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment (164th Brigade, 55th Division), documenting their hesitant romance (October 1916 - February 1919) and including details of her nursing duties at a local military convalescent hospital (October 1916 - November 1918), her voluntary work in the canteen of a local soldiers' camp (known as 'Sniggery'), civilian conditions in Liverpool during the First World War especially for the upper classes, her week's 'holiday' with a girlfriend working for the Women's Land Army in Staffordshire (February 1918), and her perception of his experiences of trench warfare and the progress of the war.
History note
Cataloguer PJG
History note
Catalogue date 1995-03-08