Papers and souvenirs of Private William Forsyth, RAMC

Date:
1915-1919
Reference:
RAMC/1910
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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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Papers and souvenirs of Private William Forsyth, RAMC. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1.Certificate of service in the volunteer force, 1916-1917.

2. Postcard photograph of St. Anne's on Sea, Lancashire, c.1916.

3. Portrait photographs and snapshots of Forsyth and comrades, 1917-1919.

4. Pass and memorandum re leave, 1919.

5. Letters from Forsyth to his wife and children, 1915-1919.

6. Souvenir postcards, mainly of Cairo and Alexandria, 24 postcards, colour and black and white, 1915-1919.

7. Postcards depicting scenes and people of Egypt and Sudan; 18 postcards, some black and white and some watercolour print images mainly of people: 'Sudanese dance', 'camel drivers', 'native woman on Egyptian donkey', 'water carriers', 'Egypt - native woman', 'Egyptian curiosities', 'Bedouine', 'Soudanaise', 'Barber', 'Meditation', 'Native woman carrying water-jar', 'native feast', 'dancing negro', 'Egypt - en route for the fields', 'Alexandrian boatmen', 'Shadoof men', 'Egypt - shaduf', 'Nile sailor'. 1915-1919.

8. Snapshots of Egyptian scenes and people, With a page of manuscript notes on some of the photographs. 1915-1919.

9. Postcard photographs, c.1917.

10. Humourous postcards of Egyptian characters; 12 postcards. With letter and postcard from Private Forsythe to his daughter Jessie, letter dated 16 Jun 1918; 1915-1919.

11. Guides to Alexandria (1918) and to the tombs of Sakkara (1911), Egypt, 1911-1918.

12. Programmes and tickets of concerts and other social occasions in Egypt, c.1918.

13. Christmas cards, including an RAMC card with a photograph of 17th British General Hospital, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917-1918.

14. Booklet of views of Alexandria, Egypt, with message of thanks from the British community to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1919.

15. Postcard photographs of Italy and Malta, 11 postcards c.1919.

16. Cartoon from a newspaper depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son, 1918.

17. Notification of wife's separation allowance and alltoment of pay, 1917.

18. Certificate of transfer to reserve and accompanying identity certificate and notification, With memorandum, 1918, re payment of grants by the Military Service (Civil Liabilities) Department.1919.

Publication/Creation

1915-1919

Physical description

6 files

Biographical note

Museum Acq. No. 2797

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