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Description: | A collection of letters, official papers, poems, forms, certificates and other papers relating to his military service initially as a Private in the London Scottish (14th Battalion London Regiment), a 2nd Lieutenant in the Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regiment), and finally a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers Special Brigade, including: a Certificate of Discharge of Lance Corporal Storr from the London Scottish Territorial Force due to his being granted a commission (January 1915); ts letter informing that he had been appointed as 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regiment); Certificate of temporary commission; three platoon roll books for 16 Platoon, 'D' Company, 11th Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Scouts, 9th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment, and 56 Section, 'K' Company, No 3 Special Battalion, Royal Engineers; a list of field kits; list of pay and allowances; certificate of physical training; menu for the celebratory dinner of the 9th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment to mark the centenary of Waterloo (June 1915); leave and railway tickets; programmes for performances of 'the Gaieties', Army entertainers, Lille (1918 - 1919); Protection Certificate for demobilisation (February 1919); ts letter from the Ministry of Labour regarding his application for a training scheme (March 1919); a ms letter to Storrs from G F Fairell, 51st Battalion Royal Field Artillery describing the boredom of life at the front, conditions of the trenches, and complaining that the artillery have to stay in the front line for much longer periods than the infantry (4pp, February 1915); a ms letter to Storr from E G King thanking him for writing to inform him of his son's death, Pioneer Arthur King RE (2pp, December 1917); 11 photographs of men of Storr's Company, including three of a Royal Engineers football team (n.d.).
Cataloguer SJO | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 11th Battalion 9th Battalion Royal Engineers 14th (County of London) Battalion British Army Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) London Regiment (London Scottish) No 3 Special Battalion | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Storrs, Charles Douglas | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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