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364 ms letters (many with envelopes), two transcriptions of letters, and 42 postcards, written to his family during the course of his service with the Liverpool Scottish (1/10th (Scottish) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment), in the UK, France and Belgium (August 1914 - April 1919). Together with: copies of training notes and other printed items relating to his service with 'E' Company, Liverpool Scottish (1902 - 1906); his official service records including his soldier's will (1915 - 1916); demobilisation papers (1919); correspondence concerning his decorations (1919 - 1922); letters and postcards from French and Belgian civilians (1915 - 1919); humorous verse; a ms letter from Captain N G Chavasse VC MC (November 1916); programmes for concerts held at the 24th Infantry Base Depot in France (February 1917); mementos of the Battalion's Beer Garden and Eisteddfod (June - July 1917); 6 ms letters from M. Francois Huygens of Uccle Belgium, concerning a gong stand he made for Macfie (1919); presscuttings from various newspapers about the Western Front with ms annotations by Macfie (1915 - 1918); his membership cards for comrades associations; correspondence concerning his proposed compilation of soldiers' songs from the First World War (December 1920); 7 ms letters and 1 postcard written by Miss Alison Macfie to her sister Mrs Janet Paton during the course of her service as a nurse with the Belgian Red Cross at the Ambulance de l'Ocean, La Panne, and the Hopital Elizabeth, Poperinghe (October 1916 - August 1917), together with an obituary notice (September 1963) and a postcard from her cousin, Miss Dorothea Macfie, also a nurse at the Ambulance de l'Ocean (December 1916); ms and ts letters from R F Macfie to his uncle J W Macfie relating in particular to his involvement in the development of the tank (December 1914 - January 1918), with two printed pamphlets by R F Macfie about the origins and tactical deployment of the tank and presscuttings (1917 - 1919); 5 ts and ms letters from William Armstrong, an actor and friend of the Macfie family describing his journey from Switzerland at the outbreak of the war and a play in Liverpool (August - September 1914); ms letter (November 1918) to Miss Sheila Macfie by Constance (?) describing her capture by the Germans when she was serving as a nurse with an advanced French ambulance on the Aisne front in May 1918 until her repatriation in October 1918).
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364 ms letters (many with envelopes), two transcriptions of letters, and 42 postcards, written to his family during the course of his service with the Liverpool Scottish (1/10th (Scottish) Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment), in the UK, France and Belgium (August 1914 - April 1919). Together with: copies of training notes and other printed items relating to his service with 'E' Company, Liverpool Scottish (1902 - 1906); his official service records including his soldier's will (1915 - 1916); demobilisation papers (1919); correspondence concerning his decorations (1919 - 1922); letters and postcards from French and Belgian civilians (1915 - 1919); humorous verse; a ms letter from Captain N G Chavasse VC MC (November 1916); programmes for concerts held at the 24th Infantry Base Depot in France (February 1917); mementos of the Battalion's Beer Garden and Eisteddfod (June - July 1917); 6 ms letters from M. Francois Huygens of Uccle Belgium, concerning a gong stand he made for Macfie (1919); presscuttings from various newspapers about the Western Front with ms annotations by Macfie (1915 - 1918); his membership cards for comrades associations; correspondence concerning his proposed compilation of soldiers' songs from the First World War (December 1920); 7 ms letters and 1 postcard written by Miss Alison Macfie to her sister Mrs Janet Paton during the course of her service as a nurse with the Belgian Red Cross at the Ambulance de l'Ocean, La Panne, and the Hopital Elizabeth, Poperinghe (October 1916 - August 1917), together with an obituary notice (September 1963) and a postcard from her cousin, Miss Dorothea Macfie, also a nurse at the Ambulance de l'Ocean (December 1916); ms and ts letters from R F Macfie to his uncle J W Macfie relating in particular to his involvement in the development of the tank (December 1914 - January 1918), with two printed pamphlets by R F Macfie about the origins and tactical deployment of the tank and presscuttings (1917 - 1919); 5 ts and ms letters from William Armstrong, an actor and friend of the Macfie family describing his journey from Switzerland at the outbreak of the war and a play in Liverpool (August - September 1914); ms letter (November 1918) to Miss Sheila Macfie by Constance (?) describing her capture by the Germans when she was serving as a nurse with an advanced French ambulance on the Aisne front in May 1918 until her repatriation in October 1918).
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