Frank Watson papers

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 206 Liddle Collection POW 067
  • Dates of Creation
      1916-1919
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 file; manuscript, postcards, photographs, and printed material Includes ambulance identity discs and shoulder flash

Scope and Content

2nd/1st London Field Ambulance shoulder flash (n.d.); Identity discs (n.d.); POW (Prisoner of War) camp coin (1916); 13 photographs (Feb. 1917, n.d.); Parchim camp pass (n.d.); 5 postcards and two letters to his mother and one postcard to his father (28 Apr. 1918, 9 Oct. 1918); Fragment of envelope (1918); 2 Parchim camp identity forms (1918); Letter from George V (1918); Red Cross postcard (4 Oct. 1918); Manuscript note (8 Nov. 1918); Leaflet relating to Bronze Stars (n.d.); Soldier's Demobilization Account (3 Mar. 1919).

Administrative / Biographical History

Frank William Watson (b 1895), a Private, 2nd/1st London Field Ambulance, RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps), served on the Western Front and was held as a POW (Prisoner of War) at Parchim.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The papers were placed in the Collection by B. W. and F. Watson. See Research Correspondence File.

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

Alternative Form Available

Microfilmed

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