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]
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