Hanby Holmes
Reference: D/HH 10 Catalogue Title: Hanby Holmes Area: Catalogue Category: Business and Industry Records (Solicitors) Description: Miscellaneous Activities: Durham Light Infantry, Home Guard
Covering Dates: 1910- 1944
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- Hanby Holmes
Catalogue Description
Home Guard, Yeomanry etc.E.R. Hanby Holmes served in the cadet corps at Malvern College. He joined the 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry in May 1908 reaching the rank of Captain on October 29th 1915. In the Second World War he was active in the Home Guard rising to the rank of major
Catalogue Contents
Hanby Holmes (Ref: D/HH )Miscellaneous Activities (Ref: D/HH 10)Durham Light Infantry, Home Guard (Ref: D/HH 10/10)Durham Light Infantry (Ref: D/HH 10/10/1-33)Ref: D/HH 10/10/1
Cash book of F. Company, 6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, 1911 - 1922
(1 volume, cloth bound)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/2Register of postage (Army Book No.97), 25 March 1911 - 3 March 1923
(1 volume, cloth half-bound)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/3Register of strength of F. Company, 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, 1 November 1914
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/4Subscription book and list of addresses of members of the Club, F Company, 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, April 1914 - 1922
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/5Stock book for beverages bought and sold by [the Club, 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry], 26 August 1920 - 15 March 1923
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/6Rule book of the Club, F Company, 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, 1914
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/7Ticket for Christmas Ball of No.3 Company, 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, with endorsements, 23 December 1921
(1 card, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/8Statement of receipts and payments, Officers' Mess, 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, (1909-10), 24 December 1910
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/9-27Correspondence received by Captain E.R. Hanby Holmes regarding the supply of medals, wearing of uniform and decorations, reorganisation of the reserves and transfer to Territorial Army, loss of cane chair on closure of Drill Hall, Barnard Castle, 28 April 1920 - 25 October 1923
(2 files, 17 papers)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/28Invitation to Captain E.R. Hanby Holmes to attend the unveiling of the D.L.I. Memorial in Durham Cathedral, 7 July 1921
(1 card, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/29Battalion orders, 25 June 1923
(1 paper)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/30Publication No.15 of the National War Arms Committee giving a 'Kalendar' of German actions during the First World War, 1917
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/31Publication No.33 of the National War Arms Committee: Our United War Arms, 1918
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/32Publication No.34 of the National War Aims Committee: A World Peace, President Wilson's Programme, 1918
(1 paper)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/33Germany's Two Voices by William Stephen Sanders, with cartoon of the Emperor William , 1917
(1 booklet, printed)
Home Guard (Ref: D/HH 10/10/34-173)Ref: D/HH 10/10/34-37Location statements for the 17th Durham (Barnard Castle) Battalion, Home Guard, 1 August 1942, 1 February 1944 and n.d.
(3 papers, 1 file)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/38-65Reports on Home Guard patrols, June - August 1940
(28 papers)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/66Copy general correspondence sent by No.3 Company and the Signalling Officer, 17th Battalion Home Guard (E.R. Hanby Holmes), 22 May 1941 - 28 September 1943
(1 file)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/67-150Battalion and company orders, instructions for training, general circulars providing information, 22 May 1940 - 23 February 1944
(15 files, 70 papers)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/151-168Correspondence and instructions received concerning the use and handling of carrier pigeons, 27 October 1941 - 10 October 1942
(16 papers, 2 files)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/169-170Memoranda and instructions relating to Tees Bridge defences, 21 May 1941 - 14 January 1942
(2 files, typescript)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/171Plan of defences at Middleton Bridge, n.d. [c.1941]
No scale
(1 plan)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/172Intelligence diary, 1 August 1943
(1 paper)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/173Newspaper cutting of article describing the stand down parade of the Barnard Castle Home Guard, Darlington and Stockton Times, 9 December 1944
(1 paper, printed)
Miscellaneous (Ref: D/HH 10/10/174-184)Ref: D/HH 10/10/174Harrying the Hun, by Norman Demuth, n.d.[c.1940]
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/175The Defence of Bloodford Village, by Col. G.A. Wade, M.C., 1940
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/176The main points of chemical warfare from the medical aspect by K. Shallcross Dickinson, M.R.C.S., n.d. [c. 1940]
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/177Pocket notes on identification of German units, January 1941
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/178Popular Guide to the German Army, No.3: Air-borne troops, June 1941
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/179Local Defence Volunteers, Training Instructions No.3, on the identification of German parachutists, 1940
(1 booklet, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/180Home Guard, Instruction No.18, care and cleaning of weapons, 1940
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/181Chart describing the P.17 .300 Lee Enfield rifle, n.d. [c.1940]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/182Identification chart for gliders, n.d. [c.1940]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/183Poster giving instructions on procedures to be followed in the event of a gas attack, n.d. [c.1940]
(1 paper, printed)
Ref: D/HH 10/10/184Ordnance Survey plan, 3rd edition, sheet 21 27
Scale: 1 inch to 1 mile
(1 plan, 45cm x 61cm, printed)
