Description
Object description
Collection of wartime and post war documents relating to his service as an Army Chaplain attached to the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment in North Africa during the Second World War, including an ms diary (19pp) kept between February and April 1943 primarily describing his battalion's movements throughout North Africa and the ceremonies he performed for deceased soldiers, 28 photographs taken during his wartime service, burial service ephemera for use at the front, Field Service Books on 'Medical Services', 'Discipline, Office Work and Burial Parties' and 'Injury or Damage from Enemy Action', a ts letter (3pp) describing 10 soldiers' experiences during the big push into Libya in 1940, an ms letter from the mother of one of the soldiers in his battalion requesting information on her son's death, ts notes from sermons he wrote, a pamphlet entitled 'Summary of the Experience in the Field of the Eighth Army Brotherhood of Chaplains: The Chaplains of the Grand Assault', a photocopied ts speech given by Churchill to the 8th Army at Tripoli on 3 February 1943, a map of Tunisia, a photocopied citation for his MC and a ts eulogy, a copy of his obituary and memorial service pamphlets from his funeral in 2005.
Content description
Collection of wartime and post war documents relating to his service as an Army Chaplain attached to the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment in North Africa during the Second World War, including an ms diary (19pp) kept between February and April 1943 primarily describing his battalion's movements throughout North Africa and the ceremonies he performed for deceased soldiers, 28 photographs taken during his wartime service, burial service ephemera for use at the front, Field Service Books on 'Medical Services', 'Discipline, Office Work and Burial Parties' and 'Injury or Damage from Enemy Action', a ts letter (3pp) describing 10 soldiers' experiences during the big push into Libya in 1940, an ms letter from the mother of one of the soldiers in his battalion requesting information on her son's death, ts notes from sermons he wrote, a pamphlet entitled 'Summary of the Experience in the Field of the Eighth Army Brotherhood of Chaplains: The Chaplains of the Grand Assault', a photocopied ts speech given by Churchill to the 8th Army at Tripoli on 3 February 1943, a map of Tunisia, a photocopied citation for his MC and a ts eulogy, a copy of his obituary and memorial service pamphlets from his funeral in 2005.
History note
Cataloguer KAW
History note
Catalogue date 2006-12-06