Miners' strike,

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  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23133C
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004627938
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1921 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 34 ff.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Eighteen letters, 1921, from Lieutenant A. O. Gillitt of the Portsmouth C Battalion, Royal Navy, to his wife, whilst posted to Newport and Abertyleri, co. Monmouth, during the coalminers' national strike, following a mutiny by members of the Royal Fleet Reserve sent there to protect the pits.

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Acquisition Information

Julian Browning; London; Purchase; 1993

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23133C

Archivist's Note

February 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003);

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Related Material

A photograph of Royal Marines at Leven Pit, co. Fife, 1921, included with the letters, is now to be found in NLW Photo Album 998.

Additional Information

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