Eric Hayes papers

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 783
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1916-1957
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Russian
  • Physical Description
    • 123 ff., manuscript, typescript, printed, photographs, negatives, and picture postcards Includes dolls in Russian dress

Scope and Content

Comprises photographs and negatives deriving from Eric Charles Hayes's participation in the Allied Intervention in Siberia, his period of imprisonment with Brian Horrocks and others in Siberia and Moscow, and his return to Britain, 1919-1920; also, photographs of Hayes, 1920s and n.d., of a country road building scene, n.d., of a Foreign Military Delegation at manoeuvres in Belorussia, 1936, and of a War Office Delegation to Romania, 1937; together with reproductions of paintings in the Tret'iakov Gallery, Moscow, Hayes's curriculum vitae, letters from Brian Horrocks, Alfred Knox and others, a cutting of the Siberian chapter of Horrocks' memoirs from The Sunday Times, and the cover of his A Full Life, Russian bond certificates, and dolls in Russian dress

Administrative / Biographical History

Eric Charles Hayes (1896-1951) was a British officer who participated in the Allied Intervention in Russia, 1919-1920

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Jeremy Fairbank, April 1986

Note

English, Russian

Other Finding Aids

A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm