Records Relating to 1914-1918 War-Part 1
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Records Relating to 1914-1918 War-part 1 This leaflet is the first draft pulling together references to sources held by Suffolk Record Office relating to the 1914-1918 War. It will be added to throughout the commemoration period as new material is deposited or comes to light as a result of research. If you have references to any Suffolk Record Office WW1 material which is not included in the leaflet, please send the details to Collections Manager Bridget Hanley ([email protected]) so they can be added. The Record Office holds a considerable amount of material illustrating various aspects of the war as it affected Suffolk people, whether they were combatants or those on the ‘Home Front’. Such was its effect on society that, in a sense, any records created between August 1914 and November 1918 – and beyond – could throw light, direct or indirect, on the First World War. The records of institutions contain in their pages a considerable amount of essential background information, and help in understanding other documents that were created as a result of, or relate specifically to, the War. The authorities administering the county, the two County Councils, the Boroughs and District Councils and Parish Councils – all reveal the effects of war on the running of local government through their minute books and committee minutes. Similarly school log books, petty sessions, court register and Anglican register of services all show a variety of different responses to the stresses imposed on society by total war. Log books record enforced changes in routine and the way children were drawn into the war effort; court registers reveal a variety of novel offences created by the war, while registers of services can suggest to what extent people turned to organised religion in a time of crisis. One major source, even though subject to censorship, is the local press. Newspapers are not included in the list below, but a leaflet is available showing the office’s holdings. There is excellent coverage of the war years at all branches. Suffolk Record Office Great War Database Project Volunteers are creating a database of references to soldiers and those with military connections from publications from the 1914-1918 era including the Suffolk County Handbook, the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury, the Leiston, Aldeburgh and Saxmundham Observer, the Lowestoft Journal, the County Roll of Honour, the records of Local Appeals Tribunals, letters to the Countess of Stradbroke from soldiers, their relatives and staff of the Red Cross Hospital at Henham Hall etc. to help those seeking information. Over 17,500 names had been indexed by October 2014. The index is held at the Ipswich Record Office. The list includes Local Studies material (further details of these books can be found on the Suffolk Library catalogue online) and items from archive collections, apart from the main series of records from the Suffolk Regiment archives (which will be included in a separate leaflet Records Relating to the 1914-1918 War – part 2) and individual photographs (which will be included in a separate leaflet Records Relating to the 1914-1918 War – part 3) (B) = Bury St. Edmunds Record Office; (I) = Ipswich Record Office; (L) = Lowestoft Record Office Printed Books This is a selection of books which relate specifically to the War, either as it affected the ‘Home Front’ in Suffolk or Suffolk people abroad on active service. This material forms a backcloth to and provides a context for the more detailed, personal, first-hand information that a study of manuscript sources provides. Of course almost any history of a parish or town in the twentieth century will include material on the war and how it affected the community, as will many autobiographies and books of reminiscences. These are not listed here but should certainly be looked at. The same applies to parish and school magazines. General Norman Holding World War I Army Ancestry (FFHS 3rd edition 1997) Ref 929.341 (B, I, L) 1 Information For Searchers No. 59 Revised May 2016 520-ACS-180411 Norman Holding More Sources of World War I Army Ancestry (FFHS 3rd edition 1998) Ref 929.341 (B, I, L) Simon Fowler Tracing your First World War Ancestors (Countryside Books 2003) Ref 929.341 (B,L) William Spencer Army service records of the First World War (PRO 2001) Ref 940.40941 (B, I, L) Simon Fowler Army Records for Family Historians (PRO, 1998) Ref 355.007 (B, I, L) Angela Lawrence Rumour: based on a true story from World War 1(2009 Sandlings Press) Ref 823 fiction (I) Nicholas Everitt British Secret Service during the Great War (Hutchinson & Co c1920) Ref 940.48541 Gerald Gliddon (Ed) Norfolk and Suffolk in the Great War (Gliddon Books, 1988) Ref 940.3426 Derek E Johnson East Anglia in the Great War in old picture postcards (European Library, 1984) Ref 940.3426 (B, I, L) W H Fevyer The Distinguished Service Medal 1914-1920 (J B Hayward & Son, 1982) Ref 940.46 (L) The War at Sea British vessels lost at sea 1914-1918 (HMSO 1919, reprinted P Stephens 1977) Ref 940.545 (L) J J Colledge Ships of the Royal Navy: An historical index. Vol 2 Navy-built trawlers, drifters, tugs and requisitioned ships (David & Charles 1970) Ref 623.8250941 (L) Lloyd’s War Losses: The First World War: Casualties to shipping through enemy causes 1914- 1918 (published in facsimile by Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd, 1990) Ref 940.545 (L) Carson I A Ritchie Q-Ships (Terence Dalton Ltd, 1985) [about anti-submarine vessels disguised as fishing and merchant ships] Ref 940.45941 (L) Skipper W S Wharton RNR DSC Submarine hunting on the North Sea in the Great War 1914-1918 (typescript ?1937) Ref 940.45941 (L) War memorials Simon Last Framlingham war memorial : the men behind the names 1914-1918 (2011) Ref 942.646 (I) Ipswich and the Great War, 1914-1918 Unveiling of the Christchurch Park memorial… Programme of the proceedings with list of 1481 names recorded on the memorial (1924) Ref 940.46094264 IPS (I) Programme of the official opening of the War Memorial Wing at the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital, by H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, 28th July, 1924 (East Suffolk & Ipswich Hospital) Ref 362.1109426 (I) Hugh D W Lees The Chronicles of a Suffolk parish church (published by the author, 1949): pages 78-87 contain an account of the War Memorial chapel in St Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft, and a list of the names inscribed there Refs 942.64L, 274.2641 (B,I,L) Neville Skinner Lowestoft Secondary School Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Ref 940.467 (L) Flood Lowestoft War Memorial : unveiled by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Wester, Thursday 11th August, 1921 at 3pm [Includes names index of the men of Lowestoft who gave their lives in the Great War, 1914-1919 Ref 940.46741 (L) K Fortune Families of those men named on the Otley village war memorial, (Otley Local History Group, 2010), Ref 942.64 (I) Regimental History Lt-Col C C R Murphy The History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914-1927 (Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd c1928) Ref 355.31094264 (B, I, L) A B Scott, (ed.), P.M. Bromwell, (comp.)The History of the 12th (Eastern) Division in the Great War, 1914-1918 (1923) Ref 355.31094264 (B) Capt A Fair, Capt E D Wolton The History of the 1/5th Battalion The Suffolk Regiment (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1923) Ref 356.110941 (B, I, L) E D Wolton ‘The 1st/5th Suffolk Territorials in the First World War’ in Suffolk Fair Aug 1978 Ref qS050 (I) Suffolk Regimental Gazette, no’s 278 (Jan. 1916) – 285 (Nov/Dec 1916) Ref S355 ( I) G Moir The Suffolk Regiment (1969), pp. 83-108 Ref 356.11 (B, I, L) M Bates The Regional Military Histories. East Anglia (1974), pp.137-142 Ref 355.009426 (B, I, L) P MacDonald The Old Dozen: A Century of Photographs (2002), pp74-105 Ref 355.34 (B,I,L) The 8th Battalion The Suffolk Regiment (?c1920) Ref 356.110941 (L) 2 Information For Searchers No. 59 Revised May 2016 520-ACS-180411 Neville Skinner Suffolks and Sepoys: the story of the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment on the Western Front 1914-1915 (2007) Ref 356.11 (B,L) The War in the Air E Smith ‘An unusual anniversary’ in Suffolk Fair, 1975 [the L5 raid of 1915] Ref qs050 (B,I) C Elliot Aeronauts and Aviators, (1971) Ref 629.1309425 (B, I, L) G Kinsey Martlesham Heath: the story of the Royal Air Force Station 1917-1973 (1975) (B, I) (revised ed. 1983) Ref 358.4170942646 (I) J S Waddell Pictorial Souvenir of the ‘Strafed’ Zeppelin L.48 (published by the author c1917) Ref 940.4 (B, I, L) G Kinsey Seaplanes – Felixstowe: the story of the Air Station 1913-1963 (Terence Dalton Ltd 1978) (B, I) (revised ed. 1985) (L) Ref 358.4170942646 C F Snowden Gamble The story of a North Sea air station being some account of the early days of the Royal Flying Corps (Naval Wing) and of the part played thereafter by the air station at Great Yarmouth and its opponents during the war 1914-1918 (OUP 1928, Spearman 1967) (B, I, L) Ref 940.44941 G M Dixon & J Rippon Wings over Eastern England, (1980), pp. 4-9 Ref 358.414709426 (B, L) G Jenkins Zeppelins over Bury (1985) Ref 949.442 (B) P Fincham ‘Zeppelins over East Anglia’ in Suffolk Fair Apr. 1979 Ref qs050 (B, I) Individual Places Various Authors Brandon and Santon Downham in Times Past, (1982) pp.