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Description: | Includes references to: food shortages (15 Dec, 23-24 Jan); air-raids on England (19 Dec, 9,13 Mar); Harry and WVR Fane both at home (23 Dec); serious food shortage in London (17 Jan); caught in London air-raids (28-29 Jan, 16-19 Feb); travelled to Cork on 31 Jan, returning on 15 Feb; WVR Fane posted to Co. Clare (27 Feb); received telegram that Harry missing (30 Mar); news that Harry safe and a prisoner (20 Apr).
Enclosures include: picture of Edith Cavell; newspaper cutting about arrival of British PoWs and internees at Boston (8 Jan); pamphlet: 'Devils of the Deep' by Wesley Frost (submarines); page of a letter from Mrs Lawrance about food shortages in London, 16 Jan; meat registration card; cutting from 'Irish Life' showing military ceremony in Cork, WVR Fane included in photographs (15 Feb); newspaper cutting: award of KCB to Commodore Godfrey Paine, late of Cranwell (13 Mar); newspaper cutting: royal visit to Lincoln and local airbase (12 Apr); Christmas card from "the cellar-house of Pervyse", Belgium, signed by Elsie de T'Serclaes and Mairi Chisholm, includes photographs of Red Cross activies and the Front. | Subjects: | Country Estates | Temporal: | 7 Dec 1917-22 May 1918 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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