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Description: | 66 ms letters and postcards, 40 in French, sent to Pitcairn-Knowles, primarily from soldiers in the Belgian Army, dealing with The Lonely Belgian Soldiers' Fund, a charity he established in 1916 at the age of 15 and for which he served as honorary secretary, thanking him for the various gifts of clothing and tobacco they received and giving updates on the war from the Belgian front (May 1915 - February 1918). Together with a letter from Pitcairn-Knowles' estate agent, wishing him luck when he was drafted into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (August 1918); 7 ms letters (31pp, August - December 1918) written home by Pitcairn-Knowles while training at the RN Depot, Crystal Palace; a postcard photograph (1p, 25 October 1918) showing him with fellow naval recruits at the Crescent War Hospital; his RNVR service certificate and travel warrant; a ts transcription (39pp) of his naval letters; 3 postcards from a Fred Manning, written from a 'concentration camp' in Germany (November 1914 - October 1917) to his son, Harry and Pitcairn-Knowles's mother; as well as two letters from Harry Manning to various members of his family, the chequebook and bankbook for the Lonely Belgian Soldier Fund and several sheets of the Fund's stationery. The collection alo includes a photocopy (2pp) of an article from 'The Vegetarian' magazine written by his father, Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles, in April 1919 and relating to the treatment of Spanish Influenza.
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Catalogue date 2006-07-27 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pitcairn-Knowles, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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