• Reference
    Z1094/1
  • Title
    Autograph album of Frances Gwendoline Watkinson (aunt of donor), eldest daughter of Charles and Ernestine; attended Midland Road Roman Catholic Church; married Charles Ringrow, upholsterer at Longhurst & Skinner, Bedford; died in childbirth in March 1926, aged 32; a number of early contributors were men of 51st (Highland) Division quartered at Bedford during the First World War
  • Date free text
    1914-1922
  • Production date
    From: 1914 To: 1922
  • Scope and Content
    contents include: - poems; - drawings; - watercolours; - postcard with drawing, possiblyof Frances Watkinson and addressed to her at 4 Hurst Grove, Bedford; contributors include: - J.Lightfoot [1914];; - Alexander Murray [1914];; - Kenneth Ross [1914];; - M.Lightfoot [1914]; - Trooper George Little of I Squadron, 2/1st Lovat Scouts [1915]; - Capt.J.F.Jones, 7th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders [1914] [died, as a major, 29 Mar 1917, buried Etaples Military Cemetery]; - Sgt.George T.Wilson of 5th Gordon Highlanders [1914]; - Major J.M.Booth; - 2nd Lt.Henry B.Carswell, 1/7th Cheshire Regiment [1915] [died 6 Oct 1918, buried at Perth (China Wall) Cemetery, Ypres]; - 2nd Lt.J.M.O.Cook; - A.Purcell [1917]; - Ewart Couts Cope[?], 6th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders [1915]; - Company Sgt.Major Ross, 1/4th Seaforth Highlanders [1916]; - Lt.W.M.Bennett [1915] [8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, died 18 Jun 1916, buried ay Maroueil British Cemetery]; - 2nd Lt.A.Crawford, 1/8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders; - Lt.Francis W.Gillespie, Scottish Rifles [1915]; - 2nd Lt.A.F.H.Neale 1/8th King's (Liverpool) Regiment; - Thomas C.Brooke, 1/8th Seaforth Highlanders [1915]; - Lt.C.T.McWilliam, 5th Gordon Highlanders [died 18 Mar 1916, buried at Louez Military Cemetery, Duisans]; - 2nd Lt.Hugh C.Mackintosh, 1/7th Black Watch [1915]; - 2nd Lt.W.G.Mathewson, 1/7th Black Watch [1915]; - R.Sievwright, 4th Cameron Highlanders [1915]; - Lt.John Laude, 1/8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders [1915]; - Sgt.J.W.Elsam, 15th Royal Sussex Regiment; - Cpl.F.Spickett, 72nd DCC; - Capt.John Russell, 1/4th ASC [1915]; - Capt.John E.Huxley ASC, 1/1 South Midland Division; - Capt.J.G.Russell, 4th Seaforth Highlanders [1915]; - Capt.Ling, 1/6th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders [1915]; - Lt.David Q.Drybrough, 1/6th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders [1915]; - Lt.Andrew M.Clements, 1/6th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders [1915]; - Archibald Anderson Barnet, 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment; - S.L.Clarke [1917]; - E.Mathies [1922]; - Lt.D.H.Ross, 23rd Battalion AIF [1916]; - Company Quarter Master Sgt.Evans, 2/7th Royal Welch Fusiliers [1916]; - Lance Cpl.W.P.Andrews, 2/7th Royal Welch Fusiliers [1916]; - W.E.Haley Marshall, ASC, Welsh Division; - Lt.Troup, 1/5th Gordon Highlanders; - Lt.R.B.Ross, 1/7th Gordon Highlanders [1915]; - Lt.Robert J.Troup [1914]; - Signaller H.Dry, 2/5th Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regiment; - Lance Cpl.N.G.C.Burfield, 2/5th Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regiment [1917]; - H.G.Lightfoot [1917]; - Capt.R.Cowie, 5th Gordon Highlanders [1916]; - Myra Ross, Douglas, Isle of Man Hospital; - Pte.G.W.Clarke, 3rd Queens [1918]; - Martha Lubbe [1915]; - A.C.Bloomfield [1919]; - Lance Cpl.H.T.Wyatt, 2/1st Monmouth Regiment [1916]; - Lt.G.R.M.Beith, 1/5th Welch Regiment [1915]
  • Level of description
    item