Summary guide to the Liddle Collection

The personal papers of three men who served in Aden, 1914-1918, and papers relating to the South Wales Borderers.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name or title.

For papers of other men serving in Aden, see also the holdings of East Africa, Africa, and Egypt/Palestine.

The personal papers of 14 men who served in West Africa (Cameroon and Togoland, Gold Coast and Nigeria), in the Sudan and Somaliland, and South Africa, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged geographically by area, and alphabetically by surname or by subject.

For papers of other men serving in Africa, see also the holdings of East Africa, Aden, and Egypt/Palestine.

The personal papers of 38 men who served in British, German and Portuguese East Africa, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by surname.

For papers of other men serving in East Africa, see also the holdings in Africa, Aden, and Egypt/Palestine.

Personal papers of men who served with the RFC (Royal Flying Corps), the RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service), and the RAF (Royal Air Force), between 1914 and 1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by surname, and in sub-groups by category of material: miscellaneous, photographs, recollections, and Squadron Histories.

98 collections of personal papers of men who served with the AIF (Australian Imperial Force) at Gallipoli, the Western Front and in Egypt and Palestine, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and in sub-groups by category of material: miscellaneous, newspaper cuttings, photographs, and recollections.

146 collections of personal papers of men who served with the NZEF (New Zealand Expeditionary Force) at Samoa, Gallipoli, the Western Front, and Egypt and Palestine, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and in sub-groups by category of material: photographs and recollections.

Personal papers of three men who served in Burma, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name.

For papers of other men serving in Burma, see the holdings of Mesopotamia, India, and General Section.

Collections of personal papers of men who served in China, and in the navy off the coast of China, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name.

Collections of personal papers of men active as Conscientious Objectors and in the Friends' Ambulance Unit, 1914-1919.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name and subject title, and also in a sub-group by category of material: miscellaneous.

Collections of personal papers of men and women who were active on the home front during the war and at the armistice, 1914-1919.

It also contains a General Aspects sub-section (see Domestic Front: General Aspects subject index) which holds collections of papers, categorised by subject, relating to particular aspects of wartime experience and the armistice on the domestic front.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name or subject.

Collections of personal papers of men who were active in Dunsterforce or the Caspian Naval Force at the end of the war and afterwards, 1918-1919.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name.

See also related material in the Royal Navy section.

Collections of personal papers of men who were active in Egypt and Palestine, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and also in a sub-group by category of material.

See also related material in the Aden section.

Collections of personal papers of French men who served, mainly at the Dardanelles, with the French Navy East Mediterranean Squadron; it also contains the papers of French men serving on the Western Front, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and also in a sub-group by category of material: photographs.

Collections of the personal papers of men who served during the Gallipoli campaign, 1915.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and also in sub-groups by category of material: maps, miscellaneous, photographs, recollections.

Collections of personal papers of men who served in the navy during the Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaigns, 1915.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and also in a sub-group by category of material: photographs.

Collections of papers categorised by subject, relating to particular aspects of wartime experience and the armistice, 1914-1919.

The material is arranged in files, by subject heading.

The General Aspects catalogue also constitutes a subject index to the First World War papers as a whole.

This is the most substantial section of the Liddle Collection, holding collections of personal papers of men who served on the Western Front, and/or who served on several fronts during the war, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and also in sub-groups by category of material: miscellaneous and recollections.

Collections of personal papers of German men who served in the war, including one Austro-Hungarian, and of English clergymen and doctors living in Germany at the outbreak of the war, 1914-1919.

The material is arranged in files by name, and also in sub-groups by category of material: maps, miscellaneous, photographs and recollections.

Collections of personal papers of men and women serving in Germany during its occupation after the armistice (1918-1920s).

The material is arranged in files alphabetically by name, and by subject title.

Collections of personal papers of men who served in India c.1914-19.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name.

See also related material in the Mesopotamia section.

Collections of personal papers of men serving on the Italian Front, 1915-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and also in a sub-group by category of material: maps, photographs, recollections.

Collections of personal papers of men who served in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and also in sub-groups by category of material: miscellaneous, photographs, recollections.

Collections of personal papers of men who served in the Pacific [including Samoa], 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files alphabetically by name.

See also the Royal Navy section.

Collections of personal papers of men who were prisoners of war, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name, and also in sub-groups by category of material: miscellaneous, photographs, recollections.

Collections of personal papers of men who served in the RN (Royal Navy), RFR (Royal Fleet Reserve), RNR (Royal Naval Reserve), RNVR (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve), Royal Marines, and Merchant Navy (MN), c.1900-1940s. It also contains a General Aspects sub-section (see Royal Navy/Merchant Navy: General Aspects subject index), which holds collections of papers, categorised by subject, relating to particular aspects of naval service during the First World War.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name or by subject title, and also in sub-groups by category of material: miscellaneous, photographs, recollections.

See also Gallipoli [Royal Navy] for related material.

Collections of personal papers of men who served in Russia both before and after the Russian Revolution, including Russian and British civilians and diplomats, 1915-1920s.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name.

Collections of personal papers of men who were civilians in Germany during the war, and interred by law in the Ruhleben Camp near Spandau, Germany, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files alphabetically by name.

Collections of personal papers of men who served in the Salonika campaign, c.1915-18.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name and subject title, and also in sub-groups by category of material: maps, miscellaneous, photographs, recollections.

Collections of papers relating to aspects of the Turkish experience of the war, including its occupation, c.1914-19.

The material is arranged in files, by subject.

Collections of personal papers of women who served overseas, mainly as nurses, with the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment), WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps), or WRNS (Women's Royal Naval Service).

It also contains a General Aspects sub-section (see Women: General Aspects subject index) which holds collections of papers, categorised by subject, relating to particular aspects of women's service overseas during the First World War, 1914-1918.

The material is arranged in files, alphabetically by name or subject title, and also in a sub-group by category of material: miscellaneous, photographs, recollections.

Many more collections of women's papers are held in the Domestic Front section.

Collections of personal papers of approximately 500 men and women who either served during the Second World War or who had experience of the conflict.

It also contains a General Aspects sub-section (see 1939-1945: General Aspects subject index), which holds collections of papers, categorised by subject, relating to particular aspects of the Second World War.

The material is divided into sections; Army, Navy, RAF, Women in Uniform Overseas, Home Front in Uniform, Domestic Front and Other Nationals: American, Czech, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Polish.

Files are arranged alphabetically by name within each section.