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war7
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Dunn, Ginette3
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White, Horace (1899-1899)1
Twidell, Will1
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Shearman, Morgan John1

Archive File

War Verse

Shearman, Morgan John

1976

This file contains a photocopy of ms. pages from a war diary kept by Morgan John Shearman, a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the South Wales Borderers during World War One. The diar...

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The war traders

Perris, G H (1866-1920)

1914

"The present volume is an enlargement of a pamphlet published in July, 1913, which was a slight enlargement of a paper read at the National peace congress, Leeds, on June 11, 1913." - Pref.

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

June 1975

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Common on 24 June 1975; sings 'Fiddler's Green' [first verse only] and 'The Oak and the Ash' [incomplete], learned from a Woodbridge accordion player. [Tr. 5]....

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Sound Recording, Sufffolk

Dunn, Ginette

12 September 1974

Horace White, recorded at home in Spexhall; talks about the effect of World War One and the Army on his thinking/outlook; village water supply; infant/child mortality; suicide; Socialism and being a s...

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Sound Recordings, Bedfordshire

Shaw, David H

1955

Bob King and his wife, recorded in Totternhoe;[Gap, 2 mins.]; Mr. King describes some [?local] caves; Sunday School treats; visitors to the area and locals serving tea to them; local people; the litan...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

1974

Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Commonon the 31 October 1974 ; talks about making clay ovens [learned during World War One]; farm work; church choir; family; engagement; being gassed during W...

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Sound Recordings, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire

Baldwin, John R

1969

George Dawes [Dusty Dawes], recorded at home in Meysey Hampton; discusses the chorus to the songs 'Treat My Daughter Kindly' and 'Down in the Fields Where the Buttercups Do Grow'; talks about [?step/?...

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