Christmas card from Capt. John Livingston

Item

Title

Christmas card from Capt. John Livingston

Identifier

9201.cpd

Creator

Abstract

Christmas card sent by Capt. John Livingston to his daughter Aggie, Christmas 1915. The card is printed "The 2/6 (Rifle) Bn. (The King's) Liverpool Regiment, Canterbury".
Insignia of the Liverpool Rifles to front.

Part of a large collection of photos and other memorabilia relating to the life and work of John Livingston (1872-1959), Barrow-in-Furness, Scotland, who served as a surgeon with the rank of Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force) in France during the Great War. Livingston obtained medical degrees from Glasgow “ later moving to Barrow, as GP. He married Annie Walker in 1899, a hospital nurse. The sister of John Livingston was the grandmother of John Jenkinson. The complete archive of Livingston (and his wife Annie and son Ian) was received by Sue and John Jenkinson after a cousin's death, being the last of his relatives.

Date

December 1915

Date Created

1915-12-01

Temporal Coverage

1915-12-31

Source

Postcard

Medium

Card

Type

Postcard

number of pages

3

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Alun Edwards (Powys Submissions Day)
Sue and John Jenkinson

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford