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'Active Service Testament', 1916

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/1058/DOU/2/2

Scope and Contents

Copy of the New Testament specifically printed for troops including 'Lord Roberts's Message to the Troops'. There are 2 inscriptions on the first page, the first records the volume as belonging to E. S. Dougall of Brookside, Tunbridge Wells and the second gives the volume to Dougall and is initialled 'E. E. D.' [Emily Elizabeth Dougall, his mother] and is dated 23 July 1916.

Dates

  • Creation: 1916

Biographical / Historical

The volume was produced by the Scripture Gift Mission and Naval and Military Bible Society and printed by Cambridge University Press.

Extent

1 volume(s)

Physical Description

New Testament: 7cm x 10.5cm.

Repository Details

Part of the Pembroke College Library and Archive Repository

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Pembroke College
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