Newfoundland Regiment Photographs

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Scope and Content

Small card album containing postcards, with the trade label of Parsons' Art Store, St. John's, and with a printed inscription 'To Rev. James and Mrs Bell with best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from Mr and Mrs John White'. The illustrations all relate to the early days of the Newfoundland Regiment, which was organised on the outbreak of war in August 1914; the first 540 men sailed for Europe on 'S.S. Florizel' on 4 October.

Access Information

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

Given by the Rev. Edwin Bell, 1980.

Note

Includes index.

Other Finding Aids

MSS Addenda, vol. I.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Bibliography

For background on these photographs see:Nicholson, Gerald W.L. (c.1964) 'The fighting Newfoundlander: a history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment'. Ottawa: Government of Newfoundland.Murphy, L.C. (1937) 'Newfoundland's part in the Great War'. IN: Smallwood, Joseph ed. 'The Book of Newfoundland'. Volume 1. St. Johns: Newfoundland Book Publishers. pp. 353-451.Nicholson, Gerald W.L. (1918) 'Newfoundland and the War'. The Times History of the War, Volume XIV. London: The Times. pp. 181-216.

Additional Information

This collection level description was entered by SG using information from the original typescript catalogue.

S H Parsons and Sons