Description
Object description
Collection of papers relating to his service with a battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers (19th Division) (July 1915 - December 1917), his training with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers (4th Division) (December 1917 - January 1918) and his work as an observer in the RAF attached to the Royal Navy (January 1918 - January 1919), including his identity disc, soldier's service and pay book, his Flying Log Book with stamps from the Observer's School Eastchurch (dated May 1918 - January 1919), together with his officer's manual, medical board certification for the post of observer in the RAF, a record of flying clothing issued in flight school, a recruitment poster from Newcastle on Tyne (dated May 1915), an issue of 'The Quaysider' written by B Company, 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (Number 1, Volume 1, November 1914), a souvenir handkerchief, the badge of the Royal Corp of Signallers, standard war medals and his National Registration Identity Card (1943 - 1945).
Content description
Collection of papers relating to his service with a battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers (19th Division) (July 1915 - December 1917), his training with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers (4th Division) (December 1917 - January 1918) and his work as an observer in the RAF attached to the Royal Navy (January 1918 - January 1919), including his identity disc, soldier's service and pay book, his Flying Log Book with stamps from the Observer's School Eastchurch (dated May 1918 - January 1919), together with his officer's manual, medical board certification for the post of observer in the RAF, a record of flying clothing issued in flight school, a recruitment poster from Newcastle on Tyne (dated May 1915), an issue of 'The Quaysider' written by B Company, 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (Number 1, Volume 1, November 1914), a souvenir handkerchief, the badge of the Royal Corp of Signallers, standard war medals and his National Registration Identity Card (1943 - 1945).
History note
Cataloguer BEK
History note
Catalogue date 2006-06-22