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Description: | Ms journal (ca 70pp) written, mainly in London, by the daughter of a news editor at the Reuters Press Agency covering the period June 1914 - (?) November 1915 with interesting references to the outbreak of war, the role of the press, relief work for Belgian refugees, and Zeppelin raids on London (September 1915) as well as anecdotes about troops billeted across the south of England, and containing also poems, photographs and correspondence from friends and relatives including letters with good descriptions of life in the trenches on the Western Front (1914 - 1915) written by a French officer, and by a sergeant (later 2nd Lieutenant) in the 2nd Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment; also seven notebooks with newspaper cuttings (5 August 1914 - (?) November 1916, some annotated) and a small folder of papers from Reuters Agency (1917 - 1918) including editorial orders and a dispatch about American forces on the Western Front.
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Catalogue date 1997-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Coules, M | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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