DCPP/WHI/2/3/1
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Item — Container: DCPP/WHI/2/3/1
North Africa etc (Vol. 1 and 2), 1943-06 - 1943-07
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI/2/3/1
Scope and Contents
Diary written by Lionel for Ethel to read on his return. The first small diary includes family photographs glued in by Ethel to 'Leo, June 1943' and signed 'God speed, E.' with a religious verse on each dated page - and Lionel's handwritten thoughts and updates. These are initially mainly of missing home and suffering on the sea journey from sea-sickness. He later describes passing Gibraltar, Oran, trips to hospitals around Algiers and on to Philippville, Tunis, Sousse and Tripoli before...
Dates:
1943-06 - 1943-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods:
30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files;
50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees;
100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years.
Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Found in:
Downing College
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GBR/0269/DCPP, Personal, Private and Academic papers of Downing members and associates
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Personal papers of Sir Lionel Whitby, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University (1945-56) and Master of Downing College
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Personal papers
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Diaries compiled by Lionel and Ethel Whitby