First World War (1914-1918)
Found in 1497 Collections and/or Records:
Pen that signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918, 1918, c 1965
Pen used by Vice-Admiral Sir Rosslyn ['Rosie'] Wemyss, [1st Sea Lord] to sign the Armistice on behalf of the British Government. Also includes a letter from his nephew, on giving the pen to Clementine, Lady Churchill.
Personal and private letters A - Z, 1913-01 - 1914-12
Personal: Clementine S Churchill: Correspondence., Dec 1915 - 1945
Includes letters from CSC to WSC written while he served on the Western Front. Part A comprises original letters: part B comprises typescript transcripts prepared circa 1945.
Personal: Correspondence, 26 Jul-19 Dec 1915
Comprising letters, mainly to WSC, gathered together by CSC. Correspondents include Sir John French [later Lord French and 1st Lord Ypres] and Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso].
Personal: Lady Lloyd and additional material, 1901 - 1963
Includes correspondence with Lord Lloyd and with other members of Lady Lloyd's family.
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1914-01 - 1914-12
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1915-01 - 1915-06
Subjects include: LSA's posting to the Balkans; his time in Athens [Greece], Serbia and Romania, collecting information on the Danube; the importance of Greek support to the success of the Dardanelles expedition; rumours of Bulgaria's entry into the war; doubts as to the intentions of Russia; the effect of Italy's entry into the war; LSA's feeling that he would soon be returning to political work.
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1915-06 - 1915-10
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1916-01 - 1916-11
Subjects include: events in Parliament, particularly debates on Compulsory Service and the lack of leadership from "Squiff" [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; LSA's attachment to the Staff in Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece].
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1917-05 - 1917-12
Subjects include: LSA's work at the Supreme War Council in Paris [France] with 1st Lord Milner and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Wilson; the success of Milner and David Lloyd George [Prime Minister]; the effect of the Russian Revolution; LSA's support for Lloyd George.
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1918-01 - 1918-12
Subjects include: LSA's election campaign (December 1918); a stay with David Lloyd George [Prime Minister] at Criccieth [Gwynedd, Wales]; the death of Geoffrey Amery at Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany]; meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet; the Supreme War Council at Versailles [France]; the German spring offensive; LSA's visit to Allied forces in Egypt.
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1918-09 - 1918-12
Subjects include: Geoffrey Amery's detention and death at Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany]; John Amery's education; the Imperial War Cabinet; the Allied victory in Palestine; the Supreme War Council at Versailles [France]; drawing up peace terms for Austria and Turkey; finding a political post for LSA, particularly with the help of 1st Lord Milner; LSA's election campaign; combining campaign ideas with [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain.
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1914-02 - 1915-01
Personal letters from LSA to AFA, 1915-06 - 1916-12
Personal: Photographs, 1892 - 1940
Includes albums from the Dardanelles, the Arab war, India and Egypt.
Photograph albums of Henry Richard Wallis relating to British Central Africa [Nyasaland; now Malawi] and Uganda
Two photograph albums chronicling Wallis' period of employment with the colonial service and a folder of biographical information assembled by the donor.
Photographs and negatives from the First World War, 1917-04
Photographs of events and visits, 1914 - 1923
Photographs of Lise Meitner and others, 1915 - 1916
Comprising 17 black-and-white photographs and 7 original negatives.
Photographs of Lise Meitner during the First World War, including the military hospital in Lemberg [now L'viv, Ukraine], where she served as a nurse and X-ray technician, 1915-16 (10), and photographs of Trient [now Trento, Italy] and the Lublin Ghetto [now in Poland], which she visited, 1916 (8).
Photographs of others: Max Planck, 1908 - 1944
Photographs of others: Otto Hahn, 1915 - 1916
Comprising 26 black-and-white photographs.
Photographs of Otto Hahn during the First World War. Including a photograph of destruction at Verdun and a completed postcard to Lise Meitner from Otto and Edith Hahn.
During the First World War, Otto Hahn saw action in Belgium and was then recruited to Pioneer Regiment No. 36, a specialist unit in chemical warfare organised by Fritz Haber.
Photographs of Somerville as Fleet Wireless Officer on the staff of Vice-Admiral Sir John de Robeck in the Dardanelles, 1915
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91
Photographs of William Joseph Ward
Comprises a series of photograph albums relating to Ward's work and travels in India, particularly relating to Rangoon and Calcutta, and various customs houses in British India. The albums also cover Ward's war service in East Africa and Iraq. There is a small amount of personal family material which gives an indication of the social life of the Wards.