Scope and Contents The bound volume contains a transcription of the diary entries found in the exercise books listed at MS Add.10082/6-7 and multiple items pasted into the volume. These include photographs, pencilled sketches by HATF, hand-drawn coloured maps, printed maps, clippings from newspapers and magazines, postcards, pamphlets and circulars, French bank notes. The volume was assembled sometime after the First World War and contains a few non-contemporaneous notes and comments.The diary begins...

Scope and Contents Bound volume of typescript letters sent from HATF to his wife, Florence Kathleen (nee Ogilvie) for the period 17 January to 1 December 1915. The letters begin on 17 January with HATF leaving for France and end with his arrival in Salonika on 1 December. As the holder of a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps, HATF was mobilised with the 85th Field Ambulance and spent most of 1915 in the vicinity of Ypres. In October his unit began preparations for moving to Macedonia to serve in...

Scope and Contents Photographs taken by HATF during his service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Flanders, France and Salonika. All of the images are reproduced in the photograph album described at MS Add.10082/12. The description for each of the glass plate negatives has been taken directly from the caption used for the corresponding image in the photograph album with additional information added to identify persons and places.The majority of the images are of places in Belgium and include views of...

Scope and Contents The album documents HATF's war service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Flanders, France and Salonika. It begins with the 85th Field Ambulance making preparations at Maresfield Park, East Sussex and includes scenes of a picnic near Maresfield Park with HATF and his young family. The album shows various billets used by HATF and his unit; damage to buildings, particularly in Ypres; the interior of buildings set up for use as field hospitals; the landscape and people of Salonika including...

Scope and Contents The bound volume contains a transcription of the diary entries found in the exercise books listed at MS Add.10082/7-8 and multiple items pasted into the volume. These include Christmas cards, programmes for sporting events and entertainments, photographs, clippings from newspapers and magazines, pencilled sketches by HATF, hand-drawn coloured maps, printed maps. The volume was assembled sometime after the First World War and contains a few non-contemporaneous notes and comments.The...

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Bound volume of typescript letters sent from HATF to his wife, Florence Kathleen (nee Ogilvie). The letters cover the period from 4 December 1915 to 16 December 1916 when HATF served in Salonika.
The letters were transcribed by Florence Fairbank and contain occasional non-contemporaneous notes and comments

Scope and Contents Bound volume of typescript letters sent from HATF to his wife, Florence Kathleen (nee Ogilvie) for the period 15 January 1917 to 26 December 1918. The letters begin on 15 January 1917 with HATF preparing to leave Southampton, England to return to service in Salonika and end with HATF leaving Malta on 26 December 1918 to return home following a three-month period of convalescence. In August 1918 HATF became seriously ill with malaria and was admitted to the 43rd General Hospital in Salonika...

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Three small colour pencil sketches (90x46mm) depicting the blowing up of an ammunition dump in Salonika by zeppelins. The sketches are by HATF and have been brought together in a single picture frame. On the reverse of the picture frame is the inscription "An impression of the blowing up of an ammunition dump by Zeppelins just before dawn".