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Liddle Collection, Women

Catalogue reference: WO

What’s it about?

This record is about the Liddle Collection, Women dating from 1914-1918.

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Full description and record details

Reference

WO

Title

Liddle Collection, Women

Date

1914-1918

Description

Comprising personal papers of women who served overseas, mainly as nurses, with the Voluntary Aid Detachment, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps or Women's Royal Naval Service

Held by
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
Language

English

Creator(s)
<corpname>Leeds University Library, Liddle Collection</corpname>
Physical description

182 boxes

Access conditions

Open

Administrative / biographical background

The material in the Liddle Collection includes the personal papers of well over four thousand men and women who lived through the First World War, and of approximately five hundred who experienced the Second World War. These have been grouped by geographical area in which a man or a woman served, or by the nature of his or her military service.

This collection also holds a general aspects sub-section which holds collections of papers, categorised by subject, relating to particular aspects of women's service overseas during the First World War

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f9801d1a-338c-4951-8dbd-e968fb9f8b08/

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