World War, 1914-1918
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
21.9 Male, Single, 35-44 yrs, Schizophrenia, April 1945
25.3 Male, Married, 45-54 yrs, Hysteria, Other organic psychoses, Physical illness or invalidism, April 1945
'This man suffers from muscular atrophy but Dr says his symptoms are half hysterical. Luminal t.i.d. Was an engineer. Incomer. Very decent people - he got a DCM in the last war. Has a disability pension and NHI - really a last war casualty. Was wounded several times. "A poor looking crater". Family life harmonious.'
Relatives in survey: Wife 25.4
Includes correspondence with Ministry of Pensions.
28.4 Male, Married, 55-64 yrs, Hysteria, Physical illness or invalidism, October 1946
"Spends six months of every year in bed. Has asthma. Describes symptoms of angina but at the wrong time. Chronic invalid. Opens his shop three times a week for two house. No one know how he makes a living. Cannot walk to the shop, always goes by car though it is a very short distance. Wife living. [Male informant] - was severely gassed in the last war. Home conditions comfortable, peaceful."
24.56 Male, Single, 45-54 yrs, Stammering, Dull and backward, July 1947
'Very bad stammer, "shell-shock" from the last war. Gardener. PC: Not bright, stammer very bad. Clean house. Minister confirms: Grand worker. Nurse confirms - inoffensive and dopey.'
28.116 Male, Married, 55-64 yrs, Head injury, September 1946
"All That Was Left of Them": The Thirteen Sole Survivors of the Second Grenadier Guards, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of thirteen soldiers that were the sole survivors of the Second Grenadier Guards that fought in World War I and another photograph of two of the survivors with their horses, the 'old contemptables' that survived the war as well.
America's Army and Navy Goes Home, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of the HMS Mauritania with 'dazzle' camouflage from her time as a troop ship being pushed by a tug boat. The text beneath the photograph notes that the Mauritania has arrived in New York 'packed with American troops and that she has been carrying home US troops since the Armistice [in 1918].
Armistice Day, 11 Nov 1942
The speech parallels World Wars I and II with that of Peloponnesian War, particularly as the Peloponnesian war was between a democracy and a totalitarian state.
Thomson read out Pericles' speech, but this is not reproduced in his notes. The speech is written on the back of a rougher, earlier draft.
Army notebook, inscribed on cover 'E. V. Appleton ii Lieut [Lieutenant] R. E. Electricity Notes' , c 1914-1921
Army notebook, with only a few pages and front cover remaining, c.1914-1918
Army notebook, with only a few pages and front cover remaining, c.1914-1918. Notes on differential equations, perhaps for lectures as Instructor in R. E. Signals [check what this means] during First World War.