Description: | Collection of 95 items mostly consisting of official and demi-official reports and letters relating to his service with the 128th Pioneers, Indian Army, 1905 - 1922, and with the 2/13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1922 - 1934, including a ts memoir (21pp) of his service in India during 1905 - 1914, various papers relating to his secondment to the Royal Military College of Australia, 1925 - 1927, and reports on his ability and the good work of his unit during the North West Frontier operations of 1930 - 1931 and afterwards. Together with 2 letters from his son, Lieutenant H Farebrother, serving with the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards (6th Armoured Division) in North Africa and Italy, 1944, some letters of condolence on his death in action in 1944, and a series of 41 items relating to the Civil Defence movement in Suffolk and Hertfordshire, 1951 - 1961, which concentrate on training, exercises, and organisation.
Cataloguer Backlog
Catalogue date 1980-12-10 |