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2 handwritten essays by George Turner:

• 'Relics', dated June 1909, and signed "G.C.T."

• 'An Essay on Cave-dwellers', dated 9 April 1921. It is unsigned. There is an inserted page entitled 'Remarks added to Literary Society'

Handwritten inscription in ink:

The War -
1914-1919
George Turner
Marlborough College

1 photograph, black and white ; 1 pasted in Christmas card

Card titled “Christmas and the New Year 1916 142nd Infantry Brigade The London Regiment” pasted in. Black and white cover, interior page shows a colour illustration of the activities in the regiment in each of the four seasons.
Caption handwritten in ink under card:
142 Infantry Bri [Brigade]:

Photograph card titled “Official photograph showing British advance in the West”
Caption handwritten in ink under card:
Wrecked British Transport near LOOS: Sept. 1915.
Photo: described in paper as ‘captured German transport’

Caption handwritten in ink on photo man on horseback:
[signature]
May 1917

Caption handwritten in ink under photo of a group of 6 men in uniform:
‘C’ Company Officers

Caption handwritten in ink at bottom of page:
HOULLE - April 1917

George Turner’s pass to allow passage in France.

Caption handwritten in ink under pass:
Laissez-passer - Nice, February 1916.
Includes a passport sized photo.

Caption handwritten in ink under a portrait photo of a man and woman:
Sergeant and Mrs Lassing

Caption handwritten in ink under a portrait photo of 3 men in uniform:
Captain: Broadnibb Captain: Roqus
Lt captain: Davies
Orderly Rou Staff

Caption handwritten in ink under a portrait photo of a man in uniform:
D.G. Way

Caption handwritten in ink at the bottom of the page:
7th Battalion at Noeux les Mines (?) - Spring, 1916

Typewritten caption pasted at the bottom of page:
C. 185. Three cheers for the Lord Mayor.

Caption handwritten in ink at the bottom of the page:
47th Division: Staff and Lord Mayor
Spring, 1916

Caption handwritten in ink under image of field with ruins and lone figure:
Battery Position - VERMELLES.

Caption handwritten in ink under image ruins:
The Water Tower O.P. VERMELLES.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of destruction:
Harrison’s Crater - LOOS

Caption handwritten in ink under image of trench:
The Double Crassier - LOOS

Caption handwritten in ink under image of destroyed building, soldiers sit in the rubble:
Battery Position - FESTUBERT

Caption handwritten in ink under image of destroyed field:
GIVENCHY

Caption handwritten in ink under image of destroyed clocktower:
BETHUNE Square - 1919

Caption handwritten in ink under image of field of mounds, sole figure stands atop:
The Brickstacks CUINCHY

Caption handwritten in ink under image of crater:
Site of the Hohenzollernn Redoubt

Caption handwritten in ink under image of road through destroyed landscape:
FESTUBERT

Blank

Caption handwritten in ink under image of destroyed landscape:
Craters within VIMY Ridge.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of road:
SOUCHEZ.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of trench and sign reading ‘Coburg Subway’:
COBURG Trench - VIMY Ridge.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of mound topped with crosses:
The Butte de Warlencourt.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of wooden cross inscribed with “47th LONDON DIVISION 15th Sept 1916”:
Divisional Memorial in High Wood.

Caption handwritten in ink at bottom of page:
Somme, 1916

Typewritten caption pasted at the bottom of page:

8. A German front line trench.

Caption handwritten in ink at bottom of page:
? Somme, 1916

Typewritten caption pasted at the bottom of page:
C. 332. Bombers going up to the front line.

Caption handwritten in ink at bottom of page:
Somme,1916

Typewritten caption pasted at the bottom of page:
C. 1076. Scene on the Somme front.

Caption handwritten in ink at bottom of page:
Somme - 1916

Caption handwritten in ink under image of crater filled with water and figures on the far edge:
‘A’ Crater - The BLUFF

Caption handwritten in ink under image of road through wasteland:
Cafe Belqe - looking towards Den Groenen Jaeger Cabaret

Caption handwritten in ink under image of road through wasteland:
Hill 60

Typewritten caption pasted under photo of destroyed buildings, date handwritten:
C. 29. A main street in Ypres. 1917

Caption handwritten in ink under image of figures in on a road leading through a destroyed gate:
Lille Gate - YPRES - 1919

Caption handwritten in ink under image of 4 soldiers:
Australians in the Salient - 1917.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of bombed landscape:
The White Chateau - near Hollebeke 1919.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of soldiers resting on a bank:
C. 973. coming out of the Trenches.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of line of horse drawn carts on road:
BIRR Crossroads - MENIN ROAD. 1919.

4 photographs, black and white

Caption handwritten in ink:
2/23rd: London Regt: in the White City
October - December, 1914

Pasted in black and white pamphlet entitled “Programme of Swimming GALA and DIVISIONAL Championship meeting” dated 26 June 1917
Caption handwritten in ink under pamphlet:
Aquatic Sport at Blaringhem

Pasted in black and white pamphlet with teal accents, entitled “The Quarante Sept Present “-and Halifax.” An original Pantomime Revue by J.W. Nevill Sergeant, London Reg”
Caption handwritten in ink under pamphlet:
Christmas Pantomime, 1916, at Halifax Camp

Caption handwritten in ink at bottom of page:
Passchendaele. 1917.

Typewritten caption pasted at the bottom of page:
C. 1010. Sleighs used for conveying the wounded through the mud. Off up to the front line to fetch the wounded.

4 black and white photographs:

Caption handwritten in ink under image of road through desolate landscape:
Longueval crossroads.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of road through desolate landscape:
Looking W. for Harvincourt Wood
Towards NEUVILLE-BOURJONVAL

Caption handwritten in ink under image of road in a desolate landscape:
DELVILLE WOOD - W. of LONGUEVAL.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of a mound of rubble:
GAVRELLE Mill.

Caption handwritten in ink at bottom of page:
FLESQUIERES - done after its capture - November, 1917.

2 black and white photographs:

Caption handwritten in ink under image of destroyed buildings along a road:
RIBECOURT - November, 1917.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of destroyed buildings along a road:
BOURLON WOOD - S.W. corner.

2 black and white photographs:

Printed caption under image of soldiers in trench with machine guns:
D.2343. Offensive on the Cambrai front. East Country troops with their machine guns reading in the German second system. As seen, they soon get a fire ready and make a hot meal.

Caption handwritten in ink under image of destroyed structure:
Sugar Refinery in BAPAUME-CAMBRAI Rd. near BOURLON WOOD.