File NLW MS 22820E. - Soldier's diary

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Reference code

NLW MS 22820E.

Title

Soldier's diary

Date(s)

  • [mid 20 cent.] (Creation)

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Extent and medium

32 ff. ; 330 x 205 mm.

Guarded and filed at NLW.

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Mrs Gilbert Llywellyn; Llanelli; Donation; 1991.

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Scope and content

A transcript, [mid 20 cent.], of the diary, 26 July 1914-22 April 1916, of a soldier from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, serving with the Royal Engineers in the First World War, including a record of his experiences on active service in the Dardanelles.
On the basis of information supplied by Mr Gwyn Jenkins, Talybont, January 2012, the writer of the diary has been identified as Hubert Cole, a Sapper with the 1st Welsh Field Company Royal Engineers. He married Kate Eveline Webb at St Luke's Bayswater on 1 November 1914.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Action: digitized. Action identifier: cymruww1. Date: 2013. Authorization: The Welsh experience of World War One, 1914-1918.

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Conditions governing access

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.

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Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

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Existence and location of copies

Digital version available https://viewer.library.wales/3435811 (January 2024)

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22820E.

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vtls004279851

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000279851

Project identifier

cymruww1

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH

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Language(s)

  • English

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