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WEA - Bernard Weatherill Papers
C - Personal Papers
F - Family letters between Jack Weatherill, his family and close friends, November 1937 - June 1949
1 - Family letters from Jack Weatherill to 'everyone' at home, September 1940 - October 1942
Ref No
WEA/C/F/1/43
AltRefNo
0535493/43
Collection
Bernard Weatherill Papers
Title
Letter from Jack Weatherill to 'everyone' at home, 9 August 1942
Name of creator
Weatherill, Bruce Bernard (1920-2007) Baron Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons
Date
09 August 1942
Extent
1 item
Description
Letter from Jack Weatherill to 'everyone' at home, 9 August 1942. An account of the journey into the mountains in a local bus, the small hotel where he and his friends are staying and their occupations on holiday. He reflects on his time at Dehra Dun as being good for sports and expensive for bad quality food, which gave him dysentry. He gives news of his transfer to 46th Cavalry at Nira, near Poona. Includes a postcard and photograph taken in Missouri
Notes
Previous reference number: WEA/C F1/43 : 0535493/43
Subject
Mountains
Holidays
Sport
Food
Dysentry
Diseases
PhysicalDescription
1 document (11pp, 1 photograph, I postcard and envelope). Ink on paper
Related Organisation
India Army 46th Cavalry
Related Place
Dehradun, India
Nira, Mahārāshtra, India
Pune, Mahārāshtra, India
Associated Person
Weatherill family
Associated Place
Roseleigh Hotel, Mussoorie, India
Category
Correspondence
Access conditions
This material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk).
Copyright
Material within the archive may remain within copyright under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Special Collections & Archives staff will assist where possible in helping trace copyright holders, but it is ultimately the responsibility of users to obtain the permission of the copyright holder for reproduction of copyright material for uses other than research or private study.
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