“Lady J.B still in London with Charlie (on leave from Sandhurst)…”
Entry dated Sunday September 23rd 1917. Diary of Alfred Osten Walker [LUL MS 9]
Tag Archives: First World War
This Week’s War: 164
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September 1917
Goods Received Goods Distributed
From Boston per Mr Stewart
Playing Cards To No. 57 General Hospital B
Books To Comrades Association
Games ” Y.M.C.A Camp B.E.F
Items donated by the wives of active servicemen aboard Cunard ships to be distributed to the indicated areas. From the Cunard Archive [Cunard Women’s War Service Association Report for 1917, D42/C1/1/22/2].
The Week’s War: 163
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“Exciting discovery that Swedish ambassador… has been acting as a German political agent… Sweden called upon to explain.”
Entry dated Saturday 8th September 1917, Diary of John Glasier [GP/2/1/24].
This Week’s War: 161
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August 1917
Goods Received Goods Distributed
From Boston
2 C/s [cases] from Franklin Relief To Bureau
Assn.
1 ” Magazines Recreation Camps in France, books, magazines, playing cards, dominoes, draughts and boards. To 2 Casualty clearing stations – Playing cards, Cigarettes.
Items donated by the wives of active servicemen aboard Cunard ships to be distributed to the indicated areas. From the Cunard Archive [Cunard Women’s War Service Association Report for 1917, D42/C1/1/22/2].
This Week’s War: 160
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“Drove to the village & called on Bradford invalid home from the front after being gassed…”
Entry dated Wednesday August 22nd 1917. Diary of Alfred Osten Walker [LUL MS 9].
This Week’s War: 159
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“I am saying that in order to urge the need of strict economy, the continued need, and even the greater need of strict economy, because we have to think not merely of the condition of things in this country, we also have to think of our Allies, France and Italy.”
Fact v. Fiction: Mr Lloyd George’s Statement on Shipping and Food Supplies (House of Commons, Thursday 16th August 1917) [SPEC S/D525 (P.C. 227)]
This Week’s War: 158
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“Mrs Whittaker had a wire from her son that he would be at home about Saturday; he has been over a year in England since he was wounded in the knee but never been home.”
Entry dated Wednesday August 8th 1917, Diary of Alfred Osten Walker [LUL MS 9].
This Week’s War: 157
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“It is difficult to say what success is being achieved by Sir Douglas Haig in his great attack in Flanders. One day the British gain ground and the next the German officers to recover part of the ground. The havoc of life must be appalling.”
Entry dated Wednesday 1st August 1917, Diary of John Glasier [GP/2/1/24].
This Week’s War: 156
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July 1917
Goods Received Goods Distributed
7 C/s Dressings To Bureau
2 ” Relief Supplies from British War ” Red Cross Society, Liverpool
Relief Society containing woolens, Cunard staff on active service
socks etc.
From New York
2 C/s supplies containing Hot water To Bureau & distributed to
bag, shoes, dressing gowns. tooth Hospitals at home and abroad.
brushes & powder, razors, soap etc
Items donated by the wives of active servicemen aboard Cunard ships to be distributed to the indicated areas. From the Cunard Archive [Cunard Women’s War Service Association Report for 1917, D42/C1/1/22/2].
This Week’s War: 155
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“In the present crisis the question of the supply of food for the population of the country, both human and animal, has come to occupy a place in the mind of the intelligent… it has become a matter of absorbing interest to every thinking man, and almost a nightmare to many.”
Extract from preface dated July 1917, The National Food Supply in Peace and War by T.B. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917), reference number SPEC POV X48.3.47.