Notes on conduct of British soldiers serving in Belgium and France, by Lord Kitchener, belonging to James Cross
Item
Title
Notes on conduct of British soldiers serving in Belgium and France, by Lord Kitchener, belonging to James Cross
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Identifier
9268.cpd
Subject
Cross, James
Abstract
Part of a large collection relating to Jim Cross, Broadway, Worcestershire. Before the First World War he was a postman in Hereford, joining the army as a ˜sapper' (service number 62966) in the Royal Engineer (Signals) in January 1915. The collection includes artefacts from Serjeant James Cross' service as a despatch rider, and his memoirs “ dictated in his 90s in the 1980s-90s to his second wife, Jill. The memoirs are based on Jim's diaries from 1915, 1917 and 1918. Sjt. Cross served overseas in the 38th (Welsh) Division Signalling Company, and was later attached to Headquaters, Royal Artillery, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division.
Date
August 1915
Date Created
1915-08-01
Temporal Coverage
1915-08-31
Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Type
Official document
number of pages
2
Contributor
Richard Marshall
Alun Edwards
Mrs Jill Cross
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford