Ypres
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Item
army vehicles and ruined church, 1919-01-01 - 1969-12-31
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 258: 155
Scope and Contents
Photo of Sir Harold Howitt; taken at Ypres
(Photo)
Dates:
1919-01-01 - 1969-12-31
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Flanders-France Diary 1915, 16 Jan.-2 Dec. 1915
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082/9
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...
Dates:
16 Jan.-2 Dec. 1915
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Flanders-France Letters 1915, 17 Jan.-1 Dec. 1915
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082/3
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...
Dates:
17 Jan.-1 Dec. 1915
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Glass plate negatives - Flanders, France and Salonika, 1915-c.1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082/11
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...
Dates:
1915-c.1917
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Photograph Album - War Service, 1914-1917
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10082/12
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...
Dates:
1914-1917
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From the Fonds:
The collection is open for researchers using Cambridge University Library.