John Innes Merrylees Fonds : Personal Collection; Diary/Journal; Manuscript; Official Papers; Ephemera 1914-1919.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

French

German

Japanese

Russian

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Language Note:

Text in English, Russian, German, French, Japanese.

Summary:

Description: John Innes Merrylees began his service as a rifleman with the 1st Battalion, 5th City of London Regiment, on the Western Front. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. He later became a captain in the Middlesex Regiment, attached to the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment which formed part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.Fonds consists of a diary kept by Merrylees from 1914-1918. From 1914-1916 it exists in typescript form only. From January 1917 to November 1917 his diary exists in manuscript and typescript form. Diary entries from March to June 1918 are handwritten on loose sheets. The date that the typescript was created is not known. The fonds also consists of orders issued by the adjutant, Captain Colin Dunean, Queen's Regiment, and Merrylees's correspondence with the adjutant, 1918; maps, predominately of Europe but also one of Gaza; Merrylees's commission certificate, and various printed materials and regalia, including his Middlesex regiment insignia.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on October 15, 2018).

AMDigital Reference: John Innes Merrylees Fonds (Sh. 5, Folders 1-18).