Archival/written
Soldier's discharge certificate (courtesy of Newark & Sherwood District Council museums.)
Nottinghamshire Archives
Wide range of archival material relating to WWI, including:
- War diaries
- Particulars of Service
- Correspondence between military personnel and their families
- Correspondence relating to the zeppelin raid on Nottingham
- Rolls of Honour listing men and women who had served in WWI
- National Registration Cards issued to Nottinghamshire adults
A selection of materials have been published in:
- Nottinghamshire Archives Office, The Great War and Nottinghamshire, Archive Resource Pack No. 2 (1989)
Nottinghamshire Archives has recently (2013) acquired Patricia and Maurice Wakefield's research notes on Nottinghamshire soldiers of World War I. The Heritage Lottery Fund is supporting the cataloguing of this unique collection of documents and photographs.
Nottinghamshire Archives' online catalogue: nawcat.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/search.htm
Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham
Includes:
- Correspondence and diaries relating to members of the Chaworth Musters family on active duty [ChM/C]
- Letters from Captain John A. E. Drury-Lowe to his mother and sister while on active service in Flanders – includes an account of The Angel of Mons [Dr 4 F 3/1-10]
- Files of letters from members of armed forces on active service during the First World War; 1914-1918 [OL C 72/1-3]
Online catalogue: mssweb.nottingham.ac.uk/catalogue/
Imperial War Museum
Use 'Search Collections' to locate Nottinghamshire-related material:
The National Archives
The National Archive’s in-depth research guides provide a comprehensive introduction to the records available for WWI:
- British Army: First World War soldiers' papers
- British Army: First World War officers' records
- British Army war diaries: First World War
- First World War: women's military services
- First World War: conscientious objectors and exemptions from service 1914-1918
Bassetlaw Museum
Wide range of material, including:
- 252 letters 1917-1919 by W H Storrs of Hayton to and from his parents while serving in the Kings Own Light infantry in UK and France and Seaforth Hospital, Litherland, Lancs after being wounded [RETBM 19998.6666.1-252]
- Greeting card and New Year card 1918 from W H Storrs to his parents [RETBM 1998.6731]
- Large number of WWI postcards/greeting cards
- Diary of Private W W Lane (1914 onwards), Duke of Wellington’s Regiment [RETBM 2009.781]
- Ledger (photographed) names of men enlisted from Welbeck Estate to kitcheners Army and Yeomanry [RETBM 2007.2165.1-4]
Newark Museums
- Memoirs of William Thomas Poucher 12205 ‘D’ company 15 platoon (enlisted in Newark in November 1915).
The Great War Archive
Various Nottinghamshire-related items available to view online at www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa:
- Correspondence and photographs of Second Lieutenant Albert Brainerd Raynes, Royal Sussex Regiment, who came from Nottingham
- War diary of Able Seaman William Ernest Varley, Royal Navy, born Nottingham
- Photographs of Sergeant John Thomas Green, 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, from Nottingham