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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1693 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Military records transferred from the National Army Museum

Covering Dates: c.1870-1974

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Catalogue Description

Records given:

1 September 2008 Acc: 7210

Catalogue Contents

Photographs of un-named soldiers (Ref: D/X 1693/1/1-1/9)

Photograph of a group of Durham Light Infantry soldiers at a hutted encampment, n.d.[ c.1914-1915]
(1 postcard, 13.5 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a horse and cart labelled 'T. Ge[illegible ] with five farm labourers, n.d.[c.1910]
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a Durham Light Infantry soldier, n.d.[c.1914-1915]
(1 postcard, 8 cm. x 13.5 cm., black and white)


Photograph of two officers, a second lieutenant seated and a second lieutenant from a Scottish regiment standing, n.d.[ c.1914-1915]
(1 postcard, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a group of Durham Light Infantry soldiers at a hutted encampment, n.d.[ c.1914-1915]
(1 postcard, 13.5 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Photograph of two Durham Light Infantry soldiers, n.d.[c.1914-1915]
(1 postcard, 8 cm. x 13.5 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a Durham Light Infantry private and a Royal Artillery private with four overseas service stripes and six years long-service stripes, both standing with a black dog lying between them, n.d.[ c.1918]
(1 postcard, 9 cm. x 14 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a group of cooks, one from the Durham Light Infantry and one from the London Regiment, including a sergeant, corporal and lance-corporal (of the Middlesex Regiment), at a hutted encampment, n.d.[ c.1914-1915]
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)


Photograph of a group of Home Guard soldiers [at Beverley?], n.d. [c.1939-1944]
(1 postcard, 14 cm. x 9 cm., black and white)

53312 Acting Sergeant John Ferry (Ref: D/X 1693/2/1-6)

1st Hull Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, later 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
Married Hull, 1914; died 4 October 1917


Copy marriage certificate for John Ferry and Eva Burns, married at St. James' church, Hull, on 8 September 1914
(1 paper)


Letter from the War Office, London, to Mrs. Ferry, 2 Eva Street, Delapole Avenue, Anlaby Road, Hull, Yorkshire, informing her of her husband's death in action, 25 October 1917
(1 paper, printed)


Letter from the Graves Registration and Enquiries Division, War Office, London, to Mrs. E. Ferry, 2 Eva Street, Delapole Avenue, Anlaby Road, Hull, Yorkshire, informing her that her husband was buried north-east of Gheluvelt, east of Ypres, n.d. [ c.February 1918]
(1 paper, printed)


Letter from the War Office, London, to Mrs. E. Ferry, 2 Eva Street, Delapole Avenue, Hull, Yorkshire, informing her that £5 3s.3d. was owing to her, 4 March 1918
(1 paper, printed)


Photograph of John Ferry in the uniform of the East Yorkshire Regiment, n.d. [ c.1914]
(1 photograph, 15 cm. x 20 cm., black and white)


Photograph of Eva Ferry, n.d. [c.1914]
(1 photograph, 8 cm. x 13 cm., black and white)

Religion (Ref: D/X 1693/3/1-3)

Hymns Ancient and Modern , n.d. [c.1870], inscribed 'Eva Prior, December 1877'
(1 volume)


Pocket Treasury compiled from approved sources (Bradford, 1912) Roman Catholic prayers and devotions
(1 volume)


Open letter from Handley [Moule], Bishop of Durham, to men of the Durham Light Infantry, December 1916
(1 card, printed)

325891 later 9/7541 later 325891 Corporal Selby Miller (Ref: D/X 1693/4/1- 4/6(1-2))

1/5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, later 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry


Letter from the Territorial Force Record Office, York, Yorkshire, to Mrs. Mary A. Miller, Cotsford Lane, Horden, informing her that her son had been admitted to no.3 General Hospital, Le Treport, France, suffering from wounds in the hand, 8 May 1915
(1 paper, printed)


Leave permit issued to Private S. Miller, D. Company, 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, 26 May 1915
(1 paper, printed)


Card sent to Mrs. Miller, Cotsford Lane, Horden Colliery, notifying her of the arrival of her son at Lewisham Military Hospital, 14 May 1915
(1 card, printed)


Railway warrant issued to Private S. Miller for a journey from Hornsea, Yorkshire, to Horden Colliery, 15 July 1917
(1 paper, printed)


Field medical card for Private S. Miller noting that he was wounded in the head and arms and had been treated at 96 Field Ambulance, 13 April 1917
(1 card, printed)


Casualty identification label for Private S. Miller, age 23, noting that he had been wounded in the head and arms and had been treated at Etaples General Hospital and on board the ambulance ship St. Denis, 20-21 April 1917
(1 card, printed, within an envelope)

Captain Wilfred Burkitt (Ref: D/X 1693/5/1-5/3)

1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, later 17th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry


Certificate presented by the town of Dunkerque to Captain Wilfred Burkitt, to commemorate the fighting of May and June 1940, n.d. [ c.1980]
(1 card, French, printed)


Certificate presented by the National Federation of Veterans of King Albert I to Company Sergeant Major Wilfred Burkitt, 27 April 1973
(1 card, French, printed)


Certificate presented by the European Confederation of Ex-Service Men conferring the Croix du Combattant de L'Europe [European Service Mens' Cross] upon Wilfred Burkitt, 23 September 1974
(1 card, French, printed)