ESSEX RECORD OFFICE
Sources for the study of the First World War
For convenience, this list of sources has been divided into the following sections:
1.General topics
2.Agriculture, food and rationing
3.Armed services
4.Armistice and Peace
5.Civil Defence
6.Industry
7.War Memorials
8.Women
9.Zeppelins and air raids
Sources appropriate to more than one section have been included more than once, under each relevant heading.
Within each section the sources are listed in the following order:
1.documentary sources
2.illustrations
3.sound archive recordings
4.printed sources in E.R.O. library
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Sources for The First World War
1. / GENERAL TOPICS1.1 / Documentary Sources
Essex Special Constabulary, Colchester Division, orders, reports and letters, incl. details of duty and drill of special constables, information re identification of aircraft, air raid precautions against enemy bombardment, table of air raids over Essex, 1915-1918, plans for evacuation in case of invasion, lighting restrictions, trading hours, food regulations, hostile pamphlets, protection of carrier pigeons, censorship of postcards etc., 1914-1918 / D/Z 77/1-2
St Peter’s Church, Bocking Finance Committee minutes incl. details of effects of war, grants to buy material to make clothes for families of servicemen, insurance of church against hostile aircraft, lighting restrictions, commandeering of schoolroom by military, 1914-1918 / D/P 546/29/6
Correspondence re purchase of lordship of manor of Foulness by War Department, 1914-1918 / D/DU 514/28
Transcript of log books of HamstelCountyJuniorSchool, Southchurch, incl. refs. to First World War, 1914-1918 / TS 607/1
Diary of R.T. Bull of Burnham, incl. considerable details of progress of war, zeppelin raids, local bombing, local billeting of soldiers, training of sons etc., 1914-1918 (mf.) / T/B 245
Essex Police Home Office circulars and instructions re restriction orders on aliens, 1914-1918 / J/P 12/1
Essex Police detailed accounts of investigations into persons suspected of German associations and making disloyal remarks, 1914-1918 / J/P 12/6
Special constable’s log book kept by H.J. Gripper of Chelmsford, details of local and national events incl. newscuttings, war damage and casualties, orders to special constables in Essex, 1914-1919 / D/Z 137
Diaries of Revd. Denys Yonge, vicar of Boreham, 1914-1919 / D/DU 358/26-31
Essex Police correspondence with Home Office re firearms and lighting, circulars issued under Defence of the Realm Regulations, 1914-1920 / J/P 12/3
MS history of Stondon Massey recording national and local events incl. Zeppelin raids, entrenchments etc. 1914-1922 / T/P 188/3 pp. 50-345, 364-376, 752-863 (indexed)
Resolution of Essex Baptist Union against European armaments, 1914 / D/NB 2/2 (p.273)
File re Lucy Pearson’s work on temperance, incl. memoranda and correspondence with War Office to achieve prohibition of sale of liquor to soldiers, 1914-1915 / D/DU 758/27
Accounts of Mrs Caroline Ann Oates incl. list of donations to various war funds, 1914-1915 / D/DOa A8
Colchester Borough Council Emergency Committee minutes, 1914-1915 / Acc. C4 (pt.)
[Colchester Branch]
Papers re sale of Brick House, Foulness to War Department, 1914-1915 / D/DGs T105
Minutes of Alresford Recruiting, War Emergency and War Savings Committees, 1914-1917 / D/P 336/30/1
Circular letter from Clacton Emergency Committee to local residents, 1915 / Acc. C628 (pt.)
Home Office circulars re wartime administration of Essex Police, incl. posters advising caution in speech, recruiting posters, notices of emergency situations, 1915-1916 / J/P 5/4-5
Copy of The True Blue Magazine (War Bulletin and Harwich Division of Essex News Recorder no. 3 vol. IX), 1916 / D/DR Z9/8
Southend Standard war reports and cases of conscientious objectors, 1916 / D/DS 308/27
Kelvedon Society of Friends Preparative Meeting minutes, incl. refs. to use of meeting house as school and letters of sympathy to Friends imprisoned for conscience sake, 1916 (mf.) / T/A 434/1/9
Probate of will with printed memorandum re distribution of assets to German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish subjects, 1916 / D/DB F290
Southend Borough Committee to effect economies in public expenditure minutes, 1916 / D/BC 1/1/2/25/1
Minutes of War Charities Sub-Committee of Southend-on-Sea General Purposes Committee, 1916 / D/BC 1/1/2/25/1
Gregorian Association refs. to contacts with SerbianChurch, 1917 / D/DU 1623/28
Southend Borough War Charities Sub-Committee (later Committee) minutes, 1917-1918 / D/BC 1/1/2/25/1
Gregorian Association ‘A Hymn For Wartime', 1918 / D/DU 1623/29
List of war donations by Courtaulds, 1918 / D/F 3/2/145
Southend Borough Special Local Markets Committee minutes, 1918-1919 / D/BC 1/1/2/25/1
Essex Police correspondence and details of officers receiving Special Constabulary Long Service medal, 1919-1922 / J/P 12/8
Certificate awarded to secretary of Witham War Savings Committee / T/P 133/8
OAP essays memories of First World War / T/A 25/596-691, 725, 770, 808, 835, 838
OAP essay memories of war in Alresford / T/Z 25/676
OAP essay memories of war in Althorne / T/Z 25/688
OAP essay memories of war in Great Baddow / T/Z 25/610
OAP essay memories of war in Battlesbridge / T/Z 25/657
OAP essay memories of war in Beaumont-cum-Moze / T/Z 25/630
OAP essay memories of war in Braintree / T/Z 25//619
OAP essay memories of war in Great Bentley / T/Z 25/668-669
OAP essay memories of war in Broxted / T/Z 25/686
OAP essay memories of war in Great Canfield / T/Z 25/658
OAP essay memories of war in Chelmsford / T/Z 25//609, 634-640, 683,684
OAP essay memories of war in Finchingfield / T/Z 25/662
OAP essay memories of war in West Ham & Birmingham / T/Z 25/617
OAP essay of memories of war in Hertfordshire / T/Z 25/611, 659
OAP essay of memories of war in Holland-on-Sea / T/Z 25/624
OAP essay of memories of war in Hutton / T/Z 25/614
OAP essay of memories of war in Ilford / T/Z 25/1904
OAP essay of memories of war in Ipswich / T/Z 25//238, 652
OAP essay of memories of war in Kent / T/Z 25/618
OAP essay of memories of war in Leigh / T/Z 25/1897
OAP essay of memories of war in Leyton / T/Z 25/25/599, 601, 1897
OAP essay of memories of war in Leytonstone / T/Z 25/690
OAP essay of memories of war in London / T/Z 25/555, 608, 626, 632, 661, 663, 675, 691
OAP essay of memories of war in Loughton / T/Z 25/642
OAP essay of memories of war in Maldon / T/Z 25/598
OAP essay of memories of war in Norfolk / T/Z 25/596, 611
OAP essay of memories of war in North Ockendon / T/Z 25/655
OAP essay of memories of war in Scotland / T/Z 25/620
OAP essay of memories of war in Southend / T/Z 25/1869
OAP essay of memories of war in Suffolk / T/Z 25/596, 612
OAP essay of memories of war in Surrey / T/Z 25/672, 678
OAP essay of memories of war in Thorpe-le-Soken / T/Z 25/648
OAP essay of memories of war in North Wales / T/Z 25/680
OAP essay of memories of war in Walthamstow / T/Z 25/644, 654
OAP essay of memories of war in North Weald / T/Z 25/611
OAP essay of memories of war in Westcliff / T/Z 25/692
OAP essay of memories of war in Wethersfield / T/Z 25/664
OAP essay of memories of war in Woolwich / T/Z 25/671
OAP essay of memories of war in Yorkshire / T/Z 25/687
OAP essay YMCA work in Colchester / T/Z 25/595
OAP essay prisoner-of-war’s visit to dentist / T/Z 25/602
OAP essay spy scare at Frinton / T/Z 25/627
OAP essay work on explosives at BrambleIsland / T/Z 25/632
OAP essay service with Red Cross / T/Z 25/641
OAP essay schooldays at Holland-on-Sea / T/Z 25/651
OAP essay Yorkshire lifeboat disaster / T/Z 25/677
OAP essay domestic service / T/Z 25/682
OAP essay Christmas Day 1915 / T/Z 25/823
OAP essay childhood memories / T/Z 25/1883, 1940
OAP essay childhood in Dartford, Kent / T/Z 25/1884
OAP essay Christmas at Dovercourt / T/Z 25/2045
1.2 / Illustrations none
1.3 / SOUND ARCHIVE
Echoes of Great War; diaries of Revd. Andrew Clark of Great Leighs, incl. recruitment and billeting of soldiers, parcels to prisoners of war, local fatalities, extracts from letters, censorship, rumours of spies etc. / SA 159
Memories of Burnham man’s father killed in war / SA 265
VAD service from c.1916, dressing station for war wounded in Southend / SA 363
Effect of war on Colchester, food shortages, influenza epidemic of 1918 / SA 391
Trams in Walthamstow / SA 427
Delivery of milk in Walthamstow / SA 441
Childhood memories of Colchester, houses and horses commandeered by Army, soldiers etc. / SA 482
3rd Essex Voluntary Aid Detachment (Men’s Division), 1914, training at Galleywood, unloading of ambulance convoys of wounded and experiences at Chelmsford and EssexHospital / SA 489
Service during war at East Bergholt / SA 533
Billeting of navvies at Mountnessing / SA 586
Childhood memories, Woolwich Shop Riots against shop owners of German extraction / SA 587
Effect on life in Stock, incl. billeting of troops, Daylight Saving Time, sound of Flanders guns / SA 598-599
Effect on rose trade caused by internment of German rose growers / SA 672
Childhood memories of Walthamstow, air raid warning and sheltering on Wanstead Flats, anti-German shop riots / SA 689
Soldiers camped on Western Road, Brentwood and billeted in home, rationing / SA 690
Roseberry Temperance Hotel, Chelmsford, memories of Chelmsford, billeting of soldiers and horses, German Taub aircraft flying over Chelmsford, Zeppelins at Tollesbury and Billericay / SA 702
Memories of Colchester / SA 929
Billets, rationing and casualties / SA 958
Outbreak of war, Tilbury-juxta-Clare / SA 1002
Memories of Burnham / SA 1004
1.4 / Printed Sources
A Clark, Echoes of the Great War. The Diary of theRevd. A. Clark 1914-1919 (1985) / E/LEI
F.P Foynes, Brightlingsea and the Great War, 1914-1918 (1993) / Pamphlet Box B8
D.E. Johnson, East Anglia and the Great War in Old Picture Postcards (1984) / 940.3
J.L. Philip, From Camel Bells to Doodle Bugs. Diary of a G.P. in Two World Wars (c.1966) / Shelf B4
Southend Branch RO Library stock
2. / AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND RATIONING
2.1 / Documentary Sources
Summary of farm and estate accounts, Lofts Hall, Elmdon, 1914-1918 / D/DU 508/8
Essex Special Constabulary, Colchester Division, orders, reports and letters, incl. food regulations, 1914-1918 / D/Z 77/1-2
Good Easter farm log book with refs. to labour shortage, 1916 / D/DU 768/15
Essex War Agricultural Committee census forms, details of land use, livestock and labour, 1916 / D/Z 45
War Office booklet Women’s War Work (HMSO) employment of women in industry and agriculture, 1916 / D/DU 758/30
Circulars and report of Essex War Agricultural Committee re need for arable land, 1917 / D/DU 746/10-12
Woodham Ferrers Parish Council minutes incl. Essex War Agricultural Committee scheme for distribution of Scotch Seed Potatoes, question of food supplies and production, 1917-1918 / D/P 198/30/2 pp.45-48, 68-69, 74-76
Cultivation orders of Essex War Agricultural Committee re Hassobury estate to plough fields and sow with corn, 1917-1918 / D/DG1 E21
Good Easter farm accounts incl. refs. To German prisoners, 1919 / D/DU 768/10
OAP essay agricultural work in Suffolk / T/Z 25/670
OAP essay rationing in Ilford / T/Z 25/1904
2.2. / ILLUSTRATIONS none
2.3 / SOUND ARCHIVE
Diary of Revd. Andrew Clark, Echoes of the Great War, incl. refs. To women trained for agricultural work at Great Baddow and rationing / SA 159
Rationing in Brentwood / SA 690
Shortage of rations / SA 796
Rationing / SA 958
Food shortages / SA 973
2.4 / PRINTED SOURCES
Newspaper cuttings concerning food during First World War / Pamphlet Box Z11A
C.B. Fisher, Food production generally and as it can be assisted by valuers. Report of address to Central Association of Agricultural and Tenant-Right ValuersJune 1918 / Pamphlet Box Z13
J.R. Beardsley, Ways But No Means. Agriculture Training for First World War Disabled Ex-Servicemen in Essex (1986) / Thesis Shelves
3. / ARMED SERVICES
3.1 / Documentary Sources
Letters from members of family to Katherine Evelyn Luard, serving as nursing sister in France, 1914-1918; papers, correspondence etc. re books Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915 and Unknown Warriors 1915-1917, 1929-1931; letters of congratulation on award of R.R.C., 1916 and bar, 1918 / D/DU 55/1/4;55/4/2-3; 55/6/7; 55/7/2-3;55/8/2-5;55/9/6;55/10/5;55/11/3-4; 55/12/4; 55/13/6;55/14/4-6;55/16/4-5, 59;60/12,4;62/1-4;
63-64; 66/1-2;70/5;86/1-2
Letters from Katherine Evelyn Luard, serving as nursing sister in France, to family, 1914-1918 / D/DLu 55/13/1,4-5, 76
List of Mucking servicemen 1914-1918 / D/P 108/28
List of Stebbing men on active service, 1914-1918 / D/P 86/30/6
List of Downham parishioners serving in HM Forces, 1914-1918 / D/P 257/28/1
Memorandum of occupation of StanwayNationalSchool by Army, 1914-1918 / D/P 43/28/6
Items re Queen Mary’s RoyalNavalHospital, Southend incl. postcards etc., 1914-1919 / D/DS 48
London Road Congregational Church, Chelmsford minutes incl. use of schoolroom as 'Soldiers Hall' for refreshments for soldiers, 1914-1919 / D/NC 22/9 pp.100-215
Presscuttings, Thurrock area, names of recruits and obituaries of those who died on active service, 1914-1920 / T/Z 43/2
Papers and correspondence of Lucy Pearson with the War Office to achieve prohibition of sale of alcohol to soldiers, 1914-1915 / D/DU 758/27
Papers etc. re enlistment in Little Clacton, Harwich Recruiting Committee 1914 and Lord Derby’s Recruiting Campaign, 1915 / D/P 80/28/2
Service diary of Clarence Buxton with Royal Field Artillery in France, incl. account of training in France and 12 Battery’s defence of trenches with sketch map, 1914-1915 / D/DBx F73
Details of parcels sent to soldiers, White Roding, 1914-1915 / D/P 304/5/2
Correspondence and papers of Frank William Luard (colonel of Portsmouth Battalion RNLI, killed in action at Gallipoli, 1915), incl. letters to family 1914-1915, photographs, reports, newspaper cuttings, letters of condolence to widow, photograph album, sketch of grave and letters from Clara Georgina Luard to family on trip to locate his grave, 1926, 1914-1916 / D/DLu 55/6/2,4,6; 55/9/7;67/2;
70/1-8;95/1-3;97/26
Minutes of Alresford Recruiting Committee, 1914-1917 / D/P 336/30/1
Correspondence and papers re Gilbert Talbot killed in action, incl. copies of last letters and obituary, 1915 / D/DLu 68/5
Letter from Agnes Baines with American Ambulance Unit at Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1915 / D/DVz 372
Roll of Honour of 49 members of Cliff Town Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows serving in HM Forces, 1915 / D/DGs F78
Letter from Rifleman E. Jepp in France describing first impressions of active service, 1915 / D/DLu 79
Letters from Bernard Harris, surgeon on HM Transport Ship Galeka to wife and daughter in Paglesham re Gallipoli campaign, 1915 / TS 634
German airman’s notebook recording details of air attacks, probably on France, 1915 / D/DBx Z10
Garments and Hospital Comforts for our Soldiers and Sailors, sewing and knitting patterns, c.1915 / D/DS 313/9/11
Diary of L. Russell Conway with 5th Battalion Essex Regiment in the Dardanelles, details of trench warfare, conditions, illness and hospital in Alexandria, return to England, 1915-1916 / D/DU 904/1
Military circulars and posters to Essex Police incl. recruitment posters, 1915-1916 / J/P 5/4-5
Notebook of William Robinson, cadet 2nd Artists' Rifles, stationed at Romford incl. notes and exercises on field sketching 1915-1916, postcard of Hare Hall Camp c.1915, photograph in uniform c.1916 / D/DU 1729 A9318
E H Green of London Road, Wickford, tailor, charges for measuring, altering and repairing army uniforms, 1915-1917 / D/DU 411
Letters to MissesI. and M. Bentall of Brick House, Eastwood and Leigh, from relatives fighting, 1915-1918 / D/DS 509
Papers re Doberitz Prisoner of War Camp kept by Private R.W. Dulley of Royal Marines Light Infanty, incl. greetings cards, photographs and souvenir programme of entertainment, 1915-1918 / D/DS 453/3, 4/8
Letters to Katherine Eveleyn Luard, nursing sister in France, from patients and their relatives thanking her for nursing men, 1915-1918 / D/DLu 61
Letters from Trant Bramston Luard, serving in Ceylon, Egypt and China, 1915-1918 / D/DLu55/14/3,5-7;
55/15/5; 83/3
Correspondence re attempt to exempt farm bailiff and head gardener from military service; exploits of son of Geoffrey Matthews (tenant farmer at Good Easter) in RAF, shot down by Germans, return from prisoner of war camp at Armistice, 1915-1919 / D/DHn E19
Papers, incl. photographs, list of officers, instructions for mobilisation re A (Southend ) Company, 4th Battalion Essex Volunteer Regiment 1915-c.1920 / D/DS 200/4-6
3rd Supplement London Gazette, with account of withdrawal from Gallipoli peninsula, 1916 / D/DU 346/8/7
Fragment of last letter of Douglas Round killed on active service, and telegrams, cuttings etc., 1916 / D/DLu 55/12/5;67/2;86/1-2
Printed maps used on Western Front showing operations in northern France, 1916-1918 / D/DU 346/9/8
Military papers of Walter Claxton of Pimlico, later Leigh, batman in RFC and RAF, 1916-1919 / D/DS 295/1
Papers of Major-General Sir H.G.Ruggles-Brise, incl. report on Essex Yeomanry stores at St Denceux, 1916, visit of Field Marshal Haig to London 1918 and admission to Freedom of City, 1920, National Peace Celebrations 1919, 4th Supplement London Gazette list of decorations awarded by Allied Powers to British Forces, 1916-1920 / D/DU 901
Log book of Colchester captain of S.S. Kalgan of China Navigation Company chartered by the Admiralty and rumours of German radar, 1917 / D/DMb B2
Claim for exemption from military service of Co-operative Society employees, 1917-1918 / D/Z 187/4/5
Correspondence re military occupation of Workmen’s Hall, Rivenhall, 1917-1918 / D/Z 62/42
Postcard receipts for food parcels sent to British prisoner of war at Rennbahn, Munster, Germany, 1918 / D/P 410/28/26
Letters re military occupation of 24 West Street, Prittlewell, 1918 / D/DGs T131
Programme of Staff Concert, Queen Mary’s RoyalNavalHospital, Southend / D/DS 476/11/15
Admiralty Chart for assembly of the Fleet at Southend, 1919 / D/DS 56
‘The Adventures of Sergeant Tom Tyler, M.M.’, account of service with Essex Regiment in Great War and certificates of gallantry, 1919 / TS 506/3, 5-6
Programme Queen Mary’s Royal Naval Hospital, Southend, social gathering of members of VAD’s 43rd, 45th, 47th Essex (British Red Cross Society) rendered war service to hospital, 1919 / D/DS 476/11/16
Correspondence with YMCA re use of house at Victoria Corner, Southend as hostel for soldiers and sailors, 1919 / D/DGs B154
Little Hallingbury Memorial Book, incl. notes, photographs, newscuttings etc. re men from parish killed, c.1919 / D/P 28/6/6
Programme of Reunion of the men of Cliff Town who served with HM Forces 1914-1918, held at Cliff Town Congregational Church, Southend, 1920 / D/F 39/488
Printed copy of settlement of £100,000 on Earl Haig for services as commander-in-chief, 1920 / D/DU 434/54
List of parishioners of Mile End, Colchester who died in or as a result of Great War, c.1920 / D/P 410/28/27
List of ‘Comrades of the Great War’ in Lexden vestry minutes / D/P 273/8/2
Notes on Essex Regiment on the Western Front / D/DU 346/9/5
OAP essay Christmas 1917 in German prisoner of war camp / T/Z 25/140
OAP essay visit of Prince of Wales to trenches in France 1915 / T/Z 25/510
OAP essay trenches / T/Z 25/516, 523
OAP essay prisoner of war 1918 / T/Z 25/539
OAP essay Macedonia 1917 / T/Z 25/546
OAP essay service in France and capture in 1918 / T/Z 25/551
OAP essay Royal Field Artillery, Belgium / T/Z 25/600
OAP essays service in France / T/Z 25/604,607, 622,655-667,
673-674,679, 789
OAP essays service in Belgium / T/Z 25/604, 622,650, 653,679
OAP essays naval service in Canada / T/Z 25/613
OAP essays military service overseas / T/Z 25/623
OAP essay service in Cyclist Battalion and Essex Regiment / T/Z 25/625
OAP essay service in Essex Regiment in France and Belgium / T/Z 25/628
OAP essay aircraft carrier at Harwich / T/Z 25/629
OAP essay service in torpedo boats / T/Z 25/633
OAP essay stationed at Easton Lodge / T/Z 25/643
OAP essay service in Egypt and Palestine / T/Z 25/644
OAP essay Salonika / T/Z 25/646
OAP essay service in RNAS / T/Z 25/678
OAP essay France, Christmas 1914 / T/Z 25/685
OAP essay India and Egypt / T/Z 25/687
OAP essay service in Navy / T/Z 25/689
OAP essay service in Far East / T/Z 25/710
OAP essay service in India / T/Z 25/794
OAP essay prisoner-of-war in France / T/Z 25/817
OAP essay Christmas in Palestine 1917 / T/Z 25/1500
3.2 / ILLUSTRATIONS
Postcard of Saffron Walden Market Place with soldiers, 1914 / Postcard Collection
Saffron Walden 113
Postcard of men of King’s Royal Rifles marching down Southend High Street, c.1914 / D/DS 345/2
Photographic negative of ex-Inspector Fletcher of Southend Constabulary service with Royal Corps, c.1914 / D/BC 1/7/6/238
Photographs of C Company Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Cameronians billeted in village, 1914-1916 / D/DU 952
Postcard of Coggeshall Market Square showing soldiers, 1915 / Postcard Collection
Coggeshall 121
Photographs of wounded servicemen outside Southend Central Railway Station, 1915 / TS 512
Photograph of guard from 4th Volunteer Battalion EssexRegiment on MunicipalBuildings, Clarence Road, Southend, 1915 / D/DS 229/58
Postcard of Rayleigh High Street showing soldiers on parade, c.1915 / D/DS 402/2/9
Postcard of Coggeshall Market Square showing soldiers, 1916 / Postcard Collection
Coggeshall 122
Photographs of Sapper Maurice J. Hollingdale of 1/3 Home Counties Division, Royal Engineers, c.1916 / D/DS 511/2-3
Postcard of 4 volunteers (named), 1918 / Postcard Collection
Great Totham 30
Photographs and postcards of nurses and patients at VADBridgeHospital, Witham / T/P 13/26
Postcard Collection
Witham 81-88
Glass negatives of the Fleet at Southend, 1919 / D/BC 1/4/10/12/18-21
Photograph of Horatio William Bottomley on captured German submarine, possibly at Southend Pier, 1919 / D/DS 229/60
Photograph of Mayor Southend on HMS ‘Queen Elizabeth’ on arrival of Grand Fleet at Southend, 1919 / D/DS 229/61
Photograph of men of Southend Borough Police Force who served in armed forces, c.1919 / D/BC 1/7/6/11
Postcards of band and soldiers drilling / Postcard Collection
Clacton General 49-53
Postcard of last church parade of 1st 8th Royal WarwickshireRegiment / Postcard Collection
Coggeshall 123
Postcard possibly of Australian troops / Postcard Collection
Thorpe-le-Soken 10
Postcards of men drilling / Postcard Collection
Southend General 16-20
3.3 / SOUND ARCHIVE
Echoes of Great War, diaries of Revd. Andrew Clark of Great Leighs, incl. billeting and recruitment, parcels to prisoners-of-war, local fatalities, extracts from letters etc. / SA 159
Service in Wrens / SA 161
Memories of Burnham man’s father killed on active service / SA 265
Experiences as Signals Telephonist on Western Front from 1916 / SA 359
VAD service dressing station for war wounded at Southend / SA 363
Burnham men on troopship bringing Australian troops to Suez, experiences on troopships / SA 367
Burnham man working on salvage boats from Ramsgate / SA 368
Sea Transport Stores Depot, Pitsea provisioning of troopships / SA 407
North Weald fighter airfield / SA 427
Requisitioning of houses and horses in Chelmsford / SA 482