Private Papers of Reverend L L Jeeves CF

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Photocopies (30pp) of articles printed in the St Mary's Whitechapel parish magazine describing his duties and experiences as the Church of England chaplain to the 55th Infantry Brigade (18th Division) while under training in East Anglia and on Salisbury Plain, September 1914 - July 1915, and on active service on the Somme front, August 1915 - November 1916; his articles include many useful observations about the soldiers' attitude to religion and his eye-witness impressions of the first days of the Battle of the Somme.

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Cataloguer RWAS

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Catalogue date 1979-06-13

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Private papers

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First World War (content)

Creator

Jeeves, L L

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File: Weight 0.4 kg

Box: Weight 2.2 kg

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Documents.4768

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