|
Date: |
|
Description: | A scrapbook album (72pp), containing a ms account in the form of a daily diary relating to his service in the Church Army, while Vicar of Lullington, Burton-on-Trent, sailing to France (January 1918) and serving as Superintendent at the Church Army Hut, Avesnes-le-Comte, near Arras (January - May 1918), with a period when the hut had to be evacuated due to the German Spring Offensive (March - April 1918). The scrapbook also contains various documents, letters, lists, postcards, newspaper cuttings and sketches, items of note including: a list of articles provided by the Church Army; a series of postcards relating to the men killed from the parish of Swepston and Snareston; passes allowing him to minister to the VI Corps School at Givenchy (January 1918); aerial photographs of bombed trenches; a series of postcards from the 'Daily Mail' of 'the King [George V] at the Front'; German 'Marks' and a photograph relating to General Ludendorff; postcards showing religious and military images; and a sermon of January 1919.
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Townend, Arthur Osmond | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
|
|