Prayer book of John Laybourne

Item

Title

Prayer book of John Laybourne

Identifier

9454.cpd

Subject

Laybourne, John Charles

Abstract

Payer book: 'A Form of Prayer to be Used at Open-Air Services [Authorised by the Chaplain-General...] Supplied for the Public Service' (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1915). With ink and pencilled inscription by John Laybourne.

Private 28761 John Charles Laybourne, 'C' Coy. 19th (Service) Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, having been discharged as medically unfit for further service, 14th April 1916, joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 (there is a discrepancy in the dates given by his paperwork, which suggest 1918) as an Aircraftsman Second Class (service no. 185738), and later served abroad with the Royal Air Force.

Date

1915

Date Created

1915-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1915-12-31

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Type

Publication

number of pages

2

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Richard Marshall (Caernarfon Submission Day 8th May 2008)
Norma Owen

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford