Private Papers of The Reverend A A Brockington CF

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Ms notebook (151pp) kept while serving as a chaplain attached to the 15th Casualty Clearing Station Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), June 1916, and with the 23rd Brigade RFA (3rd Division), June - September 1916, including a selection of popular songs, details of casualties, and a list of officers of the 3rd Divisional Artillery. Apparently transferred to the UK by January 1917, there is brief mention of work at the Avonmouth and 2nd Southern General Hospitals, but the remainder of the notebook to March 1917 is devoted to religiously-oriented spiritualist writings, seemingly in a different hand, which only occasionally mention the war.

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Cataloguer CH

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Catalogue date 1981-12-01

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Private papers

Related period

First World War (content)

Creator

Brockington, Alfred Allen

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File: Weight 0.1 kg

Box: Weight 3.3 kg

Catalogue number

Documents.4648

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