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Reference: D/X 2096 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Second Lieutenant John Thomas Petty, Durham Light Infantry and Northumberland Fusiliers

Covering Dates: 1914-1938

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13650 Private John Thomas Petty, born in Marske, North Yorkshire, moved to County Durham and lived much of his adult life in Shildon. Enlisted August 1914, into the 14th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry and served with them until December 1916; commissioned Second Lieutenant to Northumberland Fusiliers, April 1916. Head of the Auxiliary Fire Service in Shildon during the Second World War.

See Durham at War website for a full biography http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/1157/

Catalogue Contents

Second Lieutenant John Thomas Petty, Durham Light Infantry and Northumberland Fusiliers (Ref: D/X 2096/)Maps (Ref: D/X 2096/1/1-10)

Map of north west Europe, sheet 4. Shows Douai, Cambrai, Arras, Amiens, and Charleroi Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, August 1914
(1 plan, 80cm x 66cm, colour, linen backed)


Map of France, [sheet] 11, edition 2: Lens, Ordnance Survey 1916. Printed minor corrections to detail made 27 October 1916
(1 plan, 85cm x 64.5cm, colour, linen backed)


Trench map of Belgium, sheet 20 SE, edition 2A. Shows Poelcappelle and Westroosebeke Line marked up in blue, printed in red are the trenches corrected to 1 March 1917. Ordnance Survey March 1917
(1 plan, 89cm x 65.5cm, colour, linen backed)


Trench map of Belgium, sheet 28 NW, edition 5A. Shows Ypres and Poperinghe Line marked up in blue with points added, trenches corrected, 1 April 1917. Ordnance Survey April 1917
(1 plan, 89cm x 65.5cm, colour, linen backed)


Map of France, sheet 51B, edition 2. Shows Arras Annotated 'OC Coy' on the outside. Ordnance Survey April 1917
(1 plan, 89cm x 65.5cm, colour, linen backed)


Trench map of Hendecourt, special sheet with parts of 51B SW and SE, and 57C NW and NE, edition 5 Printed: Red = detail and trenches revised to 25 September 1917 Green = new work to 12 November 1917 Black = approximate British front line 25 September 1917 Marked up by hand with the Hindenburg support line
(1 plan, 78cm x 56.5cm, colour, linen backed)


Map of France, sheet 36C, edition 6. Shows Douai, Mons, and Givenchy Annotated '44A' on the outside Ordnance Survey January 1918
(1 plan, 88cm x 63cm, colour, linen backed)


Trench map of France, sheet 51B SW, edition 8D (local). Shows Cherisy and Hendecourt Printed: Red = British trenches, revised from information received 27 July 1918 Blue = German trenches, revised from information received 27 July 1918 Shows the Hindenburg Line Annotated '51B SW' on the outside Field survey 28 April 1918, revised 30 July 1918
(1 plan, 87cm x 56.5cm, colour, linen backed)


Map of Mons, Belgium and part of France, sheet 45, edition 3 Annotated and marked up by hand: Map B Red = disposition of troops at dusk 9 November 1918 Green = Enemy line at 11:00 on 10th Black = disposition of troops on 10th and night of 10/11 November 1918 Red symbols = 155th Brigade Green symbols = 157th Brigade Further marked up in purple pencil Ordnance Survey September 1918
(1 plan, 85cm x 59cm, colour, linen backed)


Section from a larger map, shows Lens, France Added in black pencil - divisional boundaries are in a solid line, formations boundaries are in a broken line, showing sectors with a machine gun battalion, Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery, and 155th, 156th, and 157th Brigades no date
(1 plan, 34.5cm x 46.5cm, colour, linen backed)

Printed material (Ref: D/X 2096/2/1-6)

Handbook of the Lewis Automatic Machine Gun Model, 1915, edition 3 Armes Automatiques Lewis, Antwerp Belgium, manufactured by the Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited, c.1915-16
(1 volume, cloth bound)


The Machine Gunner's Range and Trajectory Card, with angles of elevations for Mark VI ammunition, c.1914-19 Originally enclosed in the Lewis handbook
(1 card)


Hints on remedying stoppages in the Lewis machine gun, issued by the General Staff at General Headquarters, October 1915 Originally enclosed in the Lewis handbook
(1 card)


Field Service Pocket book, inscribed inside 'JT Petty, 2nd Lt Northd Fus' [Second Lieutenant, Northumberland Fusiliers] c.1918
(1 volume, cloth bound)


An Atlas of Gas Poisoning, third edition, reprinted by the Home Office (Air Raid Precautions Department), London, 1938, stamped on the front and inside cover 'JT Petty, Eden Grange, Shildon'
(1 booklet)


Practical Meteorology, being a guide to the phenomena of the atmosphere and the practical of instruments for registering and recording atmospheric changes, by JB Scoffern and EJ Lowe, published by Charles Griffin and company, London n.d.
(1 volume, cloth bound)