IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.8025-8026
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Littlewood, Capt. Martin Wentworth (fl.1917-1919): war diary
Date(s): 1917-1919
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Littlewood | Martin Wentworth | fl 1917-1919 | Captain
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Diary of Captain Martin W Littlewood, Royal Army Medical Corps, from embarkation to join the B.E.F. in France in January 1917, through the battles of Arras and 3rd Ypres, the German offensive of Spring 1918 and the final advance leading to the Armistice, and on to his demobilisation in March 1919.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
By volume
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Dr. Mark Littlewood, August 1997.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
See also MS.5415, Littlewood's 1970 memoir of his service during World War I .
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009