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Records of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own
Royal Lancaster RegimentCaptain Albert
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1909-1919
Correspondence and Note Books Set Two
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Captain Albert Hodgkinson was commissioned as Honorary
Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 5th Battalion (Territorial Force)
in 1909. He was mobilised in the summer of 1914 and served as
Quartermaster throughout the war, serving with the battalion in
France, Flanders, Brussels, Army of the Rhine and Ireland until they
arrived back to Lancaster in late 1919.
The collection of material was described by him as "the
carbon copies of every message I ever sent in the war". Albert
Hodgkinson was Mentioned in Despatches three times. |
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Field
Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson,
Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
World War One.
“This is the first QM note
and correspondence book, prior to using the usual Army Book 152.” “QM
Private in Tin Box” 18 Feb 1915 to 8 Apr 1915. Book
printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, London.
This first note book
includes notes which would have been important to a Quartermaster
whose battalion was new in theatre and on operations. The 1st/5th
Battalion was with the 83rd Brigade in the 28th Division, and were
along side the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and
the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment.
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Billeting notes |
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Battalion’s ammunition
strength, 23 Feb 1915 |
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Battalion’s strength
(personnel), for rations, 25 Feb 1915 |
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Notes on where to obtain
supplies, including rum (64 men to a gallon), farms for wood and
straw, paraffin, straw, coal, disinfectant, candles etc. |
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Note of rations required
for 1059 officers and men |
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Dranoutre area notes. |
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Instructions for the
supply of vegetables, coke, coal, straw, etc, |
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Anti-frost bite grease |
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On page 55 there is a
hand written note of the quantities of food supplied to men. |
Item |
Quantity |
Bread |
1¼ or 1 lb biscuit |
Meat |
1¼ or 1 lb preserved |
Bacon |
4 oz or butter |
Tea |
⅝ oz |
Sugar |
3 oz |
Jam |
4 oz |
Salt |
½ oz |
Pepper |
1/36 oz |
Cheese |
3 oz |
Veg |
½ lb fresh |
Rum |
1/64 gal |
Tobacco |
2 oz weekly |
Lime Juice |
1/10 gill |
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Hay |
10 lbs any grade |
Oats |
15 lbs heavy 10
lbs light |
Bran |
occasionally |
Beetroot |
to buy |
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Details of carts
available for transport. |
2 |
General Service wagons
– supplies |
3 |
General Service wagons
– stores |
2 |
Hired carts – blankets |
1 |
General Service wagon
– trench stores |
1 |
Maltese – medium
equipment |
1 |
Maltese – Trench
stores |
4 |
Cooks carts – for
Cooking stores |
2 |
Tool carts – for
trenches |
5 |
Small Arms Ammunition
carts |
2 |
Machine Gun Ammunition
carts |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 2
Jun 1916 to 5 Jul 1916. Book Number 1
“In Jun 1916 notes between
various members of the battalion mostly notes from the QM department
were kept in separate ‘QM Notes books’ This is number 1 of the
series”
Book printed by Willmott &
Sons. Ltd., London, in Mar 1916.
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Record of Green
Envelopes, Jun 1916 |
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Issue of tinted glasses |
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Battalion order No. 26,
7 Jun 1916, Orders for QM Staff and Transport |
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Notes for 8 Jun 1916 |
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List of kit to be
carried on the man, 16 Jun 1916 |
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Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: smoke helmets, satchels, machine gun covers, steel
helmets, telescopic rifles, rations, rum, equipment, Military Medal
ribbon, jerkins and blankets, the late CO’s Helmet, cyclists, soap,
new drafts, fresh beef, weight of officers valises, gas cylinders,
bomber badges, folding saws, bomb buckets, grenade carriers,
sniperscopes, shoemaker, range finder, Revd. Hindley, wire cutters,
rifle, and vegetables. |
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Letters QM to Sergeant
Brockbank concerning: personnel and sick reports etc and the new
Chaplains Kit. |
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Letter QM to Medical
Officer concerning: whitewash. |
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Letter QM to Armourer
Sergeant Davies concerning: vermoral sprayers. |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 26
Mar 1917 to 14 Apr 1917. Book Number 2
Printer not stated, but
dated Jan 1917.
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List of Quartermaster’s
Staff included in Transport Platoon, 31 Mar 1917. |
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HQ Mess Accounts 15 Apr
1917 |
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List of special
equipment in possession of HQ, 5 Apr 1917, including Webley pistols,
whistles, saws, pocket compasses, telescopic sights, binoculars,
watches, handcuffs, bugle (Private Holland). |
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Note about inspection 11
Apr 1917 of leather jerkins, fur coats and cardigans. |
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Letters QM to Sergeant
Brockbank re personnel, sick reports etc. |
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Letters QM to Officer
Commanding concerning: fire at ‘C’ Camp and loses, 14 Jan 1917, Post
Bags, Lewis Guns, cookers, illness of Private McGrow’s father, caps
muzzle attachment, equipment deficiencies, rifles for rifle
grenades. |
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Letters QM to Adjutant,
concerning: water, fuel, notice board, post bags, rat traps, drafts,
painting grenade rifles, armourer, shortages |
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Letters QM to Major
Milnes concerning: fuel, rations, return of post bags, rubbish from
billets, ammunition in rubbish ‘popping off’ in the incinerator,
large sausages |
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Letters QM to Company
Commanders, concerning Lewis Guns, 2 Apr 1917 |
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Letter QM to RQMS
Grindrod concerning: Limbers |
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Letter QM to Medical
Officer concerning: Latrine buckets |
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Letter QM to MO Red Farm
Dressing Station, re Private Wood who is sick, swallowed a tunic
button, 11 Apr 1917. |
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Letter QM to QM 1/10
Liverpool Scottish concerning Cook on course. |
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Letters QM to Corps
Disinfecting Station and Divisional Baths re 200 blankets, Apr 1917 |
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Letter QM to NCO in
charge of Cemetery, Vlamertinghe, please arrange for grave for one
man killed today, 12 Apr 1917, Private S L Hughes, number 242572,
age 19, son of Alfred Henry and Harriett Hughes of Prince’s End,
Tipton, Staffs. |
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Bath/disinfected
certificates for Private R Walmsley, number 240882, 1st/4th King’s
Own. Private F W Ratcliffe, number 241665, corporal Parsons, 243038
and Private H Matthews, number 240163, Apr 1917 |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 14
Apr 1917 to 26 Apr 1917. Book Number 3
Book printed by McC & Co
Ltd. Dec 1916.
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Details of Transport, 16
Apr 1917 |
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Headquarters Mess
Accounts Apr 1917 |
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Note of men killed 24
Apr 1917, Private J B Butcher, number 242390, Church of England and
Private H Webster, number 242690, Wesleyan, probably for cross
maker. |
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Letters QM to Sergeant
Brockbank re personnel etc |
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Letters QM to Officer
Commanding concerning: Captain Simpson’s binoculars, hairbrushes,
2nd Lieutenant Honey’s dental treatment, Private E W Bailey, number
242537, truss, gloves, |
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Letters QM to Major
Milnes, concerning: clean socks, sugar, dripping, acquittance rolls,
telephone number, steel helmet covers, Corporal William Rollinson,
number 242981, tailor, boots, socks and helmet covers. Peas and
beans, Meat and Vegetable, Lewis gun magazines in Haversacks, baths,
box respirators and tins and officer valises. 26 Apr 1917 covering:
signalling wire, Lewis gun damaged, breech covers, muzzle
protectors, ground signalling strips, rice, biscuits, milk, gas
cylinders, petrol tins and blankets, ‘O’ Camp, and Companies in
Ypres. |
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Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: dripping and frying in the line, losses of special
equipment, sanitary man additional pay, meritorious medal ribbon,
mail bags, stores and men killed. |
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Letter QM to OC Signals,
concerning: Candles. |
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Letters QM to Medical
Officer concerning: fuel, inspection of Lance corporal F Iniff,
number 1506, 1st/5th King’s Own. |
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Letter QM to 166 Brigade
concerning: fuel allowance. |
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Bath/disinfected
certificates for Private J W Hargreaves, for cookery course, Lance
corporal F Iniff, number 240221, for musketry course, Lance corporal
J R Krelle, number 240190 and Private W Jackson, number 240518, for
signalling course, Private G Bond, number 235030 proceeding to base,
Private H Cumberbatch, number 241590, proceeding to base and
Corporal L Hollingworth, number 242990 to 2nd Army A Office.
Private J W Rowe, number 240346, to VIII Corps School. All 1st/5th
King’s Own soldiers. |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 26
Apr 1917 to 20 May 1917. Book Number 4
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Transport Details for
Move, 2 May 1917 |
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List of winter clothing
returned, 4 May 1917, including Vests, woollen, gloves worsted and
fingerless, blankets, leather jerkins, undercoats, fur, cardigans,
capes, horse rugs, sheepskin coats, boots. |
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Letters QM to Sergeant
Brockbank re personnel etc |
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Letters QM to Captain
Harrison, concerning: Box respirator extensions |
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Letters QM to Captain
Harris, concerning: Rations, Blankets etc |
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Letters QM to Major
Milnes, concerning: helmet covers, none issue of Whale Oil in
summer, return of Capes, Mackintosh, |
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Letters QM to Adjutant,
concerning: transport, Private Rawlinson sewing badges, boot
repairs, bomb buckets, relief’s, white wash brushes, Private Yare,
number 1751/240335. |
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Letters QM to Medical
Officer, concerning: condemned iron rations, primus stoves and
siphons. |
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Letter from RQMS Edward
Grindrodd re Move and Transport, 11 May 1917, whilst QM absent on
duty. |
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Bath/disinfected
certificates for Private W E Hardie, number 241523 and Private F
Thompson, number 200616, 18 May 1917, “free from scabies and vermin” |
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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 26
Apr 1917 to 20 May 1917. Book Number 4
Captain Hodgkinson’s
Messing from 8 to 16 May 1917, dated 16 May 1917, 51.75 francs. |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 20
May 1917 to 5 Jun 1917 Book Number 5
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Headquarters Mess
Account, 25 May 1917 |
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Letters QM to Sergeant
Brockbank re personnel etc |
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Letters QM to Adjutant,
concerning: leave, officer replacements, petrol tins, blankets, gum
boots, luminous paint, water bottles, chaplain C K Wilson, CF,
cyclist messengers, move, rubbish, Hellfire Corner. |
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Letters QM to Medical
Officer, concerning gramophone, muslin and fly sprayer |
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Letters QM to Major
Milnes, concerning tins, whitewash, water, padre, blankets, grenade
rifles, oil drum for latrines, sterilizing tablets, and replacement
of small articles of kit. |
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Letter RQMS to Adjutant,
concerning 60 tooth brushes, unserviceable. |
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Letter Acting
Quartermaster (Lieutenant J S Punchard) to Officer Commanding A
Company concerning: Soda Syphons. |
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Letter Acting
Quartermaster (Lieutenant J S Punchard) to major Milnes, concerning
axes, felling, unserviceable. |
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Letters Acting
Quartermaster (Lieutenant J S Punchard) to Adjutant concerning:
goggles, anti gas, and Private Ralph, wounded 2 Jun 1917. |
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Letter Acting
Quartermaster (Lieutenant J S Punchard) to Medical Officer,
concerning fly sprayer. |
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Bath/disinfectant
certificates for: men going to rest camp 20 May 1917 |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5
Jun 1917 to 22 Jun 1917. Book Number 6
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HQ Mess Accounts May
1917 |
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Special Equipment in
Possession 5 Jun 1917 |
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Letter QM to Officer
Commanding concerning: Baths. |
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Letter QM to Major
Milnes concerning: Menin Road, Water Rations, Shoe maker, leave pay. |
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Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: Reinforcements, packs, 2nd Lieutenant Bennett’s maps,
personnel moves, gum boots, braziers, transport, Potijze Dump,
Dragoon Farm, list of wounded at Red Farm, 16 Jun 1917, ‘two
bicycles in the debris’ plus burial and numbers killed. Telescopic
sights, box respirators, mobile reserve of bombs, baths, dumps and
transport details for 28 Jun1917. |
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Letter QM to Medical
Officer concerning: gramophone |
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Letter QM to OC B
Company concerning underclothing exchanges, Lewis Gun. |
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Letter QM to Captain
Harriss concerning Chloride of Lime |
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Letter QM concerning
cookery course personnel, Jun 1917 |
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Bath/disinfectant
certificates for: Sergeant Barnes, Private T Davies, number 242671
and Private R Rawlinson, number 240874, Corporal J Dolan, number
241298, Private W Westhead, number 240300, Private W Bellamy, number
242524, Private J Thompson, number 241215, Corporal H Kneale, number
241249, all 1st/5th King’s Own. |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 23
Jun 1917 to 25 Jul 1917. Book Number 7
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Headquarters Mess
Account 23 Jun 1917 |
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Notes about billets |
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List of items to be
issued to companies, 11 Jul 1917 |
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Note about billeting
certificates Setques Pas De Calais, Jul 1917 |
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List of stores handed
over to Area Commandant Setques, 18 Jul 1917 |
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Letters QM to Officer
Commanding concerning: wooden bullets, (Dummy cartridges) and
Divisional Signs (roses) for uniform Jul 1917 |
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Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: steel helmet covers, company tailors, Lewis gun limbers,
special equipment, trench food heating, signalling lamps, Lewis
guns, iron rations, boot repairs, Private Rawlinson, HQ Tailor,
Brigade sports, Lewis Gun Magazine carriers, Sniper rifle, rifle
grenades, Small Arms Ammunition. |
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Letter QM to Camp
Commandant ‘Red Rose Camp’ 23 Jun 1917 re Divisional Badges for
Tunics |
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Letter QM to Brigade
concerning rations, clothing, anti-gas goggles, under clothing
cleaning. |
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Letters QM to 166
Brigade concerning, list of bombs, shovels and picks, RE material. |
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Letter QM to Officer
Commanding Corps, concerning Beef Dinner and Ham Sandwiches |
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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 23
Jun 1917 to 25 Jul 1917. Book Number 7 At page dated 11 Jul
1917
Instruction from
Quartermaster to Quartermaster Sergeant to issue kit to various
companies, dated 11 Jul 1917. |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 25
Jul 1917 to 20 Aug 1918 Book Number 8
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Headquarter Mess
Accounts 5 Aug 1917 |
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Letters QM to Officer
Commanding concerning rations, tommy lighters, chocolate and
cigarettes |
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Letter QM to Major
Milnes concerning, blankets, boots, chocolate, cigarettes for men,
rations, tommy lighters, and 400 pairs of Roses through canteen. |
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Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning rations, tommy lighters, meat and vegetables, jam, loss
of ten additional large wire cutters, bombs and ammunition drawn 12
Aug 1917 and Special Care of new pattern ground sheets |
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Letters QM to Harriss
concerning water cart, bombs, timber for crosses, Times newspaper
and soap |
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Letter QM to Officer
Commanding A Company, re water and water bottles |
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Letter QM to Commander
Royal Engineers, 55th Division, concerning the issue of nails. |
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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 25
Jul 1917 to 20 Aug 1918 Book Number 8
At page dated 29 Jul 1917
Note to Quartermaster
about Private Day, number 242672 and Private W Harding, number 260005,
both going missing. Dated 29 Jul 1917. |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 21
Aug 1917 to 15 Sep 1917. Book Number 9
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List of tools issued 3
Sep 1917 including shovels and picks, grenades |
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Arrangements for 15 Sep
1917, transport, cooker, cyclists etc |
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Letters QM to Adjutant,
concerning telephone sets, pierrot performance, 26 Aug 1917, Lewis
Gun lost indent, receipts for roses and brigade sports, box
respirators, area cleaning, cookers, tools, latrines, wash benches,
biscuit tins, tommy cookers (solidified spirit) kettles, Record of
killed and wounded, 15 Sep 1917, Anti-aircraft Lewis gun sight. |
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Letters QM to Transport
Officer, concerning cookers, mess carts, coal, wood, nose bags,
chains, collar, dandy brushes, saddle blankets and water carts |
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Letter QM to Adjutant,
1st/5th South Lancashire Regiment regarding lost bicycle, 4 Sep 1917 |
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Letter QM to Officer
Commanding C Company re complaint about owner of billet regarding
damages, 9 Sep 1917 |
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Letter QM to All Company
Quartermaster Sergeants regarding footballs and surplus stores, and
cigarette, beer and tobacco issue to troops. |
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Letters QM to Company
Commanders regarding company tailors assisting Private Rawlinson
with rose patches and steel helmet covers, Aug 1917, and
arrangements for Concert Party |
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Letter QM to 166 Brigade
concerning Blank Cartridges for training. |
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Letter QM to OC 13 Coy
regarding Lamps for Concert, 7 Sep 1917 |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Sep 1917 to 26 Oct 1917. Book Number 10
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Headquarters Mess
Accounts |
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Rations for Trenches 1
Oct 1917 |
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Details Orders |
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Notes 30 Sep 1917
regarding cookers, dripping, pioneers, letter box, blankets, roses,
Christmas cards, fuel and sand bags. |
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Canteen stocks Oct 1917 |
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Letters QM to Officer
Commanding concerning rations, position of new camp, rations,
blankets, rum, Lewis Gun slings, baths, field cashier, green canvas. |
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Letters QM to Major
Milnes concerning rations and alcohol for mess. |
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Letter QM to Transport
Officer concerning list of stores |
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Letter QM to Adjutant
concerning Lance corporal Blair, cookers, newspapers, Lewis gun
sights, carriers and pouches, pack animals, shaken men and damaged
bicycles, 17 Sep 1917, painter, potted meat, candles, mail and
newspapers. Names for battalion roll of honour, wash benches,
corrugated sheets, creosol and sanitary paper |
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Letter QM to Medical
Officer concerning Mess Costs. |
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Letter QM to Padre
concerning Hymn books |
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Letter QM to Corps Royal
Engineers requesting wood for crosses, 16 Sep 1917 |
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Letter QM to Sergeant
Barnett, concerning rations and meals 17 Sep 1917 |
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Letter QM to Sergeant
Haslam, concerning rum |
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Letter QM to Sergeant
Barrow, concerning primus stove |
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Letter QM to Officer in
charge Mill Dressing Station, concerning Castor oil for diarrhoea “I
do not know of an MO who is not fully occupied.” |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 26
Oct 1917 to 15 Nov 1917. Book Number 11
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Canteen stock list, Oct
1917 |
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Letters QM to Officer
Commanding concerning, Lewis Gun slings and Notice Boards. |
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Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: petrol tins, ‘High St. and George St’ locations,
personnel to accompany stores moves, Operation Orders, Rum Jars,
fire orders, latrine buckets, bacon, soup, rum bottles, jerkins
(leather), tommy cookers, latrine paper, fuel issues, and paraffin,
socks, cardigans, ammo re-supply, issue of whale oil, Lewis Gun
anti-aircraft sight, return of empty tins, beer, issue of Whale Oil,
rubber patrol suits, dubbin and note about “two steel helmet covers
are sent for the two American officers, Nov 1917” |
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Letter QM to Baths
concerning Private A Smith |
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Letter QM to Captain
Deed, concerning socks, latrine buckets, petrol tins, candles. |
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Letter QM to OC C
Company, concerning candles. |
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Letter QM to Major
Davis, Balloon Section, Royal Flying Corps, re Fire Buckets |
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Letter QM to Staff
Sergeant Smith concerning the issue of Lime Juice, Nov 1917 |
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Letter QM to Private
Rawlinson concerning the canteen |
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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 26
Oct 1917 to 15 Nov 1917. Book Number 11 At page dated 5 Nov
1917
Note to Quartermaster
dated 5 Nov 1917 about being in the line longer than planned and
obtaining beer for the companies. |
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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 26
Oct 1917 to 15 Nov 1917. Book Number 11 At page dated 5 Nov
1917
List of fuel at Transport
lines, showing quantities of coal, coke and charcoal. |
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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12
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Letters QM to Medical
Officer concerning baths, mess lists and accounts. |
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Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning, gum boots, underclothing, candles, helmet covers and
badges, Private A Shelly, number 28071 having scabies, sent to
hospital, solidified alcohol, rum, water, dummy grenades, box
respirator containers, socks, (Lumberman’s short and long), A
Company men “taking in their trousers contrary to orders” and names
of signallers to transport lines. |
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Letter QM to BTO 166
Brigade, concerning, extension to officers mess |
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Letter QM to SO 166
Brigade, concerning men rejoining the battalion from 178 Tunnelling
company |
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Letter QM to SSO 55
Division, concerning men rejoining the battalion from 178 Tunnelling
company |
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Letter RQMS Grindrod
concerning stores and motor lorries |
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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 20 Nov
1917
List of soldiers attending
Bath Parade 10.15 am 20 Nov 1917 |
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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 20 Nov 1917
List of soldiers attending
Bath Parade 10.15 am 21 Nov 1917 |
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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 20 Nov 1917
Notes ‘In case of an
advance the following arrangements will come into force’ page 1 of 2
Covering: Dumps, Dump
Wardens, Shoemakers, Armourer, Cooks, Post Orderly, Orderly Room and
Pioneers. |
kolib0218/46-04 |
Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service)
Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 20 Nov
1917
Notes ‘In case of an
advance the following arrangements will come into force’ page 2 of 2
Covering: Surplus kits,
stores, officers’ valise, other stores, Lewis Gun stores. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12
At page dated 20 Nov 1917
List of stores to move,
and name of Corporal Gregory. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 24 Nov
1917
List of Canteen stock, 24
Nov 1917. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12
At page dated 24 Nov 1917
Letter regarding the
return of a Whitewash brush. dated 24 Nov 1917 |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 24 Nov
1917
List of rations issued 28
Nov 1917 |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15
Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 24 Nov
1917
List of discrepancies to D
Company, circa Oct 1917. |
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Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5
Dec 1917 to 11 Jan 1918. Book Number 13
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Bathing arrangements at
Bomy, 31 Dec 1917 |
|
Letter QM to Sergeant
Brockbank concerning stationery requirements |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning rum, Amiens, lost rifle of Lance corporal Banks, bricks,
corrugated iron and timber for tables, officers billeting, chevrons
for service overseas (3 Jan1918), detailing of QM’s staff for work,
CQMS A Wilson to act as RQMS, empty tins and cases disposal,
billets, barbers and sanitary men and latrines. |
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Letter QM to Staff
Captain, 166 Brigade, concerning Christmas cards. |
|
Letters QM to Company
Commanders concerning lighting in billets and straw for billets, 30
Dec 1917 |
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Letter QM to SO 166
Brigade, concerning fuel |
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Letter QM to SSO 55
Division, concerning fuel |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 11
Jan 1918 to 12 Mar 1918. Book Number 14
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Notes of Efficiency
Economy Competition (Details and rules of scheme) |
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Transport Details |
|
Letters from QM to
Adjutant concerning: Private J Horan, number 35808 as shoemaker,
straw for billets, passes to St. Omer for Private G Whiteside,
number 240831, and Private R Bell, number 241639, reduced scales of
rations, clipping the legs of Peggy, the adjutant’s horse, against
orders, loan of the tug-of-war rope, Lewis Gun anti-aircraft sight,
rum, band – instruments of the 7th Battalion’s band to come to the
1st/5th Battalion, promotion of Private Crofthall, water duties man,
and King’s Own Pamphlets, publishers cannot supply more. |
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Letters from QM to
Company Commanders concerning: dirty drawers and billeting details |
|
Letter from QM to
Corporal Parkinson concerning concert party |
|
Letter from QM to Miss
Bertha Walkden, Caton Road, Lancaster, 1 Feb 1918 as thank you for
parcels received as gifts. |
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Letter from QM to James
Hawker & Sons, Plymouth for supply of Port, 17 Feb 1918 |
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Letter from QM to Gale
and Polden Ltd, Aldershot, for writing pads and envelopes, 17 Feb
1918. |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 12
Mar 1918 to 5 Apr 1918. Book Number 15
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Boot repairs, by Company |
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Canteen list, 29 Mar
1918 |
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Billets at Ferme du Roi |
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Notes on rations, 27 Mar
1918 |
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Ammunition handed over
to 1st/5th Lancashire Fusiliers |
|
Letters QM to Commanding
Officer concerning powdered milk and rations carried on the man. |
|
Letters QM to Major
Phillips, concerning: sandbags, rations, rum, ham and bacon, patrol
suits, clothing, tea and sugar |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant,
concerning: Private Ellis, downgraded but good barber, rum, warning
order for emergency move on 14 Mar 198, Company Tailors making Steel
Helmet covers, items lost due to shell fire, suggestion on economy,
latrines, reinforcements, reduction of stores, officers kit and
broken Lewis gun sight. |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant,
concerning Queen Alexandra’s Field Force Fund, Lancashire County
Comforts Fund, Readers of the Manchester Guardian and list of
contents of parcels. |
|
Letters QM to Town
Major, Bethune, concerning, billeting certificates and stoves. |
|
Letter QM to 55th
Division concerning damage to shoemaker’s kit (and wounding to
shoemaker) by shell fire. |
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Letter QM to OC A
Company, concerning whitewash brush. |
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Letter QM to BTO 166
Brigade, concerning grease boxes for wash benches. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 12
Mar 1918 to 5 Apr 1918. Book Number 15 At page dated 13 Mar
1918
List of four officers who
have had boots repaired. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 12
Mar 1918 to 5 Apr 1918. Book Number 15 At page dated 16 Mar
1918 (shown as 16/2/18)
Letter to Adjutant from
Quartermaster dated 15 Mar 1918 re baggage and warning order to move. |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5
Apr 1918 to 13 May 1918. Book Number 16
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Record of Band Music
received 20 Apr 1918 |
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Notes on Rations 22 Apr
1918 |
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Transport 13 May 1918 |
|
Letters QM to Commanding
Officer concerning: supplies, ‘Bethune is empty’; mistake over rum
by Lance Corporal Graham, and rations 3 May 1918 |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant,
concerning: reduction of kit and mess stores, Private Bradshaw not
satisfactory in band, Private H Smith, number 26844, possibly
becoming a joiner from 7th Battalion, equipment supplied to Private
A Hawkes, number 13874, lost items – 12 pairs of running shoes,
packs found on limber, band account, POW accounts and boot repair
account. Socks, return of rum jars and tins, sand bags and rations. |
|
Letter QM to Turner
regarding replacement bicycle |
|
Letter QM to RQMS
concerning: baggage, loading and movement |
|
Letter QM to Adjutant 55
DRD Bn. Close arrest of Private A R Tuck, number 28404, property
forwarded, 6 Apr 1918 |
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Letter QM to Movement
Forwarding Office (MFO) re missing officers kit. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5
Apr 1918 to 13 May 1918. Book Number 16
At
page dated 5 Mar 1918
Envelope address to Lance corporal W Hynett, number 15817, Military
Foot Police, C/o APM Boulogne |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5
Apr 1918 to 13 May 1918. Book Number 16 At page dated 5 Mar
1918
Letter dated 3 May 1918
from Quartermaster to Lance corporal W Hynett, number 15817, Military
Foot Police, c/o APM Boulogne. Re gramophone which has arrived for
Captain Hind, who has been missing since 9 Apr 1918.
Captain O G Hunt, 1st/5th
King’s Own missing 9 Apr 1918, repatriated as prisoner of war 29 Nov
1918 |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5
Apr 1918 to 13 May 1918. Book Number 16 At page dated 5 Mar
1918
Note about safe arrival of
gramophone. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5
Apr 1918 to 13 May 1918. Book Number 16 At page dated 5 Mar
1918
Business card of ‘Maison
Ono Succr. M Lebleu, 14 Rue Victor Hugo, Boulogne-sur-Mer. Selling
pianos, phonographs, disques anglais et francais. |
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Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th
Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5
Apr 1918 to 13 May 1918. Book Number 16 At page dated 11 May
1918
Note about Billets at
Houchin, dated 27 Apr 1918. |
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Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson,
Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 11
Apr to 18 Apr 1918. Book Number 16 A.
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Numbers of personnel in
companies, Apr 1918 |
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Letters QM to Commanding
Officer concerning: cigarettes, solidified alcohol, SOS Rockets, 14
Apr 1918. |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning reinforcements, rations and officers kit. |
|
Letter QM to Staff
Captain, 166 Brigade concerning Canteen Requirements |
|
Letter QM to Town Major,
Rainbert, regarding billets and baths. |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 14
May 1918 to 12 Jul 1918. Book Number 17
|
Nominal roll for
overseas chevrons, recording numbers, rank, names, years and months
of service (3 pages) |
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List of bicycles by
serial number and soldiers issued |
|
April Shoemaker account |
|
HQ Mess Account |
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Rations for Reception
Camp |
|
Letter QM to Commanding
Officer concerning rations. |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: meat and ration delivery, meat safes, Lewis gun damages,
spare and magazines, Private J Newsham being suitable as a cook as
he has bad feet and has been wounded, billets at Drouvin, cleaning
up party, tobacco, cooks, condemned food, Jun 1918 (‘Hoddie’ M & V
(meat and vegetable) made by Charles and Thomas Harris & Co. Ltd.
Calne, Wiltshire, a firm which patented the method of curing bacon),
underclothing, and home addresses of officers. |
|
Letters QM to OC
Details, concerning patches, roses and tailors |
|
Letter QM to Transport
Officer, concerning transport and rations to Waterloo Bridge |
|
Letter QM to ‘Mac’,
dated 9 Jun 1918 “Dear Mac, Hearty congratulations on the 2nd Bar….’
Lieutenant Macdonald. |
|
Letter QM to Medical
Officer concerning whitewash brushes |
|
Letter QM to Adjutant
DPOP, concerning: fuel, Lewis gun, fat lighters etc |
|
Letter QM to DADOS 55th
Division, concerning bicycles |
|
Letter QM to Officer
Commanding B company, concerning complaints about beef. |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 16
Jul 1918 to 4 Aug 1918. Book Number 18
|
HQ Mess Account |
|
Burial of Private Harold
Watson, number 28077, 1st/5th King’s Own, killed 26 Jul 1198, buried
in Houchin British Cemetery |
|
Letter QM to Sergeant
Brockbank concerning soldiers at reception camp. |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant,
concerning: dental treatment, petrol tins, Lewis Gun team our of
line, band fund, reserve service dress clothing, revolvers and
holsters to Lewis gun teams, monkey puzzle anti-aircraft mounting,
cleanliness at camp. |
|
Letter QM to Major
Marshall, concerning rations, fresh and tinned |
|
Letter QM to Medical
Officer, concerning, Private Davies, being unwell, 16 Jul 1918. |
|
Letter QM to Lieutenant
Macdonald MC, concerning his watch. |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 6
Aug 1918 to 30 Sep 1918. Book Number 19
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Mess Accounts, 21 Aug
1918 |
|
Numbers of me at Houchin
Camp |
|
Note about the Field
General Court Martial of 2nd Lieutenant Howson, 19 Sep 1918 |
|
Permission for Private N
Cottam, number 263006, to have the Padre’s bicycle. |
|
Letter QM to Commanding
Officer concerning Clothing |
|
Letters QM to Major C C
Marshall concerning: candles, rations, sandbags, biscuit tins for
boiled beef and bacon, rissoles instead of minced meat and bacon. |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: rations, rum and lime juice, 2nd Lieutenant Tweedies
claim, camp at Vaudricourt, ablution hut, cookhouses, huts, value of
articles salvaged, loss of letters, registered postal packet, rifle
grenades, Lieutenant Hart’s leave warrant, Mackintosh capes and
Battalion butcher, Lance corporal Robinson. |
|
Letter QM to DADOS 55th
Division concerning: deficiency returns, caps, jackets, trousers,
puttees, mess tins, 5 Sep 1918 |
|
Letter QM to OC A
Company, concerning lime juice |
|
Letter QM to Medical
Officer, concerning enamelled cups missing from water tester, water
duty man to be billeted with stretcher bearers, 26 Aug 1918 |
|
Letters QM to Band
Sergeant Loftus, concerning buglers required for funerals 7 Aug 1918
and on 26 Aug 1918 two buglers required at Houchin Cemetery. |
|
Letter QM to Roman
Catholic Chaplain, 164 Brigade, request to attend Houchin Cemetery. |
|
Letter QM to Sergeant
Sykes, requesting limber and cart to collect 4 bodies for funeral. |
|
Letter QM to BTO
requesting 100 ft of 4 by 2 timber for crosses. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 6
Aug 1918 to 30 Sep 1918. Book Number 19 At page dated 24 Aug
1918
Movement Order, Army Form
W 3039, dated 24 Aug 1918. For Captain and Quartermaster A Hodgkinson
and Private R Blamire, 1st/5th King’s Own from St. Pol to Barlin. |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 30
Sep 1918 to 6 Nov 1918. Book Number 20.
|
Orders for 3 Oct 1918 –
Baggage, stores, rations, postman and cyclists |
|
List of stores at
Bethune to be sent by lorry |
|
Orders for ‘Bustle’ 16
Oct 1918 |
|
List of Billets occupied
by 1st/5th King’s Own in the town of Bethune, 12-15 Oct 1918 showing
addresses: rue Buridan; rue Beranger; rue de Marais; Rue de la Porte
Neuve; Place Du seu de Paume; Avenue Rouget de L’Isle |
|
Letters QM to Commanding
Officer concerning: HQ Mess and Christmas cards from Gale and Polden. |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: Acting RQMS Wilson on lelave, CQMS Herridge and Sergeant
Harriot, biscuits, chloride of lime, cigarettes, iron rations,
whisky, 600 clean changes of underwear, canteen supplies, notes in
case of move forward and Christmas Cards, too late for proof, and
cash with order from soldiers. |
|
Letters QM to RQMS
concerning, roses, compass and magazines |
|
Letters QM to OC Baths,
request for 450 pairs of socks |
|
Letter QM to Private
Rawlinson concerning 18000 cigarettes for mess |
|
Letter QM to SO 166
Brigade about half full rum containers. |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 7
Nov 1918 to 5 Dec 1919. Book Number 21.
|
List of absentees from
details parade, 20 Nov 1918 |
|
List of stores at
Bethune |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: leather jerkins, baggage, transport, cross country run
on 19 Nov 1918, list of men wishing to take part in classes, rugby
football players and building construction class. |
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Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 7
Nov 1918 to 5 Dec 1919. Book Number 21.
At page dated 24 Nov 1918
Memo dated 6 Nov 1918
about officers requiring cash |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 6
Dec 1918 to 6 Jan 1919. Book Number 22.
|
List of special
equipment at Bethune |
|
Letters about issued
watches |
|
Move on 11 Dec 1918 |
|
Requirements for
crockery for officers mess if formed |
|
Billets at Brussels |
|
List of matters
requiring immediate attention on arrival at Brussels including
indent for material |
|
List of potatoes, 22-24
Dec 1918 |
|
List of men entitled to
1914/15 Star (Quartermasters Staff) 17 in total |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: lost articles, request for special leave by Private
Salmon, protractor for aeroplane photographs (issued 15 Jul 1917),
Orilux lamps (issued 27 Jul 1917), educational courses, stores
required from Brigade for latrines, wash benches, ovens, band
shelter and incinerator, iron rations handed into stores and Long
Service Quartermaster’s Staff (46 months service): Sergeant E V
Sykes, number 240384, Private W J Parkinson, number 240065, and
Lance corporal H Hodgson, number 240249. Mention of Military medal
to Acting RQMS R H Kirkby, number 240026. Request to adjutant for
understudies to apply for following posts, willing and able to stay
longer in service: Sergeant Cook, postman, tailors, shoemakers,
butcher, pioneers and cooks. |
|
Letter QM to Band
Sergeant Loftus requesting list of instruments |
|
Letter QM to Sergeant
Abbott, Lewis gun NCO, requesting stores check |
|
Letter QM to BTO
concerning Christmas Cards |
|
Letter QM to Company
Commanders asking for the quantities of material they could
contribute towards a mess. |
|
Letter QM to OC D
Company concerning roses. |
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Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 11
Jan 1919 to 12 Mar 1919. Book Number 23.
|
Statement of
expenditure, 5th Army Association Football Committee |
|
Notes about lighting in
billets, fuel and consumption of gas in Sergeants Mess. |
|
Letters QM to Adjutant
concerning: baths, pioneers, blankets, bill for broken window,
outstanding sports kit. |
|
Letter QM to SO 166
Brigade concerning Straw |
|
Letter QM to OC C
Company concerning deficiencies |
|
Letter QM to Corporal
Graham, in charge of Cooks. |
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Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson,
Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment,
World War One. Printed by J R Ltd. May 1916.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
|
List of officers and
date they signed Army Form W 3225 for various articles of kit
received on payment etc. |
|
Names and home addresses
of officers |
|
Record of officer boot
repairs |
|
List of footballers
attached Feb and Mar 1919 |
Major
Charles W Pulford, 159 Royal Field Artillery, 38 Winton Terrace,
Shenheston, Glasgow
Lieutenant Eric Williams,
8th Machine Gun Corps
2nd Lieutenant J M
Edwards, 159 Royal Field Artillery, 119 Turnpike Lane, Hornsey,
London, N7.
2nd Lieutenant M Eastwood,
x/31 MTM Battery, 40 Reginald Mount, Leeds.
Major W Bumphrey, 8th
Machine Gun Corps, Breck Beck, Wallasey, Cheshire
Captain W J Backrath, 8th
Machine Gun Corps, 2 Park Row, Hull.
Lieutenant W Chambers, 159
Royal Field Artillery, Rishton, near Blackburn
Lieutenant G Gorringe, 7th
Northampton
Regiment, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
2nd Lieutenant E V Loney,
Royal Garrison Artillery, Rudyard, Nr Leek, Staffordshire. |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Sep – Oct
1916
Letter QM to Commanding
Officer concerning wire cutters etc provided to officers, 20 Oct 1917 |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Feb 1918
Packing Note Army Form G
1028, for Compass, dated 20 mar 1918 |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Nov 1918
Receipt for Revolver and
Rod received from CQMS D Company, 29 Aug 1917, 2nd Lieutenant D R
Tweedie. |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
Typed list of 5th King’s
Own officers home addresses |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
Handwritten receipt for
binoculars, 1 Nov 1917 |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
Extract from General
Routine Orders dated 29 May 1917, ‘Number 2358 Repairs to Officers’
Boots’ |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
List HQ Officers Boot
Repairs Account Ending 28 Feb 1918 |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
List Transport Officers
Boot Repairs Account Ending 28 Feb 1918 |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
Receipt for valise, trench
boots and coat (pea jacket) dated 23 Mar 1917 |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jun 1918
Receipt for money received
from Captain Hodgkinson for boot repairs for Jun and Jul 1918, dated 9
Aug 1918 |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jul 1918
Receipt for 43 francs for
Boot repairs, Aug 1918 |
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153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Dec 1918
Officers Boot Repairs, Aug
to Dec 1918 |
kolib0218/59-13 |
Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book
153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Dec 1918
Receipt for boot repairs,
8 Jan 1919. |
kolib0218/59-14 |
Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book
153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Dec 1918
Receipt for boot repairs
to Quartermaster, dated 15 Feb 1919 |
kolib0218/59-15 |
Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book
153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Dec 1918
Record of Officers Boot
Repairs, Jan 1919 and arrears |
kolib0218/59-16 |
Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book
153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Feb 1919
Record of Officers Boot
Repairs, Feb 1919 and arrears |
kolib0218/59-17 |
Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book
153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Feb 1919
Receipt for Boot Repairs
to Quartermaster, 2 May 1919 |
kolib0218/59-18 |
Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book
153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jul
1919Officers Boot repairs, Apr to Jun 1919, dated 30 Jul 1919 |
kolib0218/59-19 |
Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book
153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jul 1919
Officers Boot repairs, Jun
and Jul 1919, dated 29 Aug 1919 |
kolib0218/59-20 |
Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book
153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion,
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers
Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jul 1919
Note showing stock of
soles, heels, heel plates, sole plates and contents of bag with
Private Holden, |
kolib0218/60 |
Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Brigade Quartermaster
Notes and Correspondence 8 Feb 1917 to 27 Nov 1917
Hodgkinson had a temporary
appointment as Brigade Quartermaster and his notes and letters
include:
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Fire precautions |
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scrap iron |
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Sanitary officers
inspection, resulting in comments on removal of rubbish, removal of
night urinal near cookhouse, scrap iron, improvements, grease traps
etc. |
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Units included: 166
Machine Gun Company (unsafe fire places and braziers, general
tidiness), 166 Brigade Transport Lines, (fire buckets, latrine seats
and stores hut to be kept clean), 1st/5th North Lancashire Regiment,
1st/5th South Lancashire Regiment, 1st/10th Liverpool Scottish. |
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Letter QM to Staff
Captain 166 Brigade concerning the repair of the general’s boots. |
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Points from Visit of
DAAQMG VIII Corps, 23 Mar 1917: inspection of rifles; butchers
tables; hedges and fences to be kept clear of tins; duckboards;
cooking utensils to be clean; the quartermaster must see that faeces
and urine are properly disposed of; latrine buckets, seats and
paper; meat safes; biscuit ration; mess tins inspected etc. |
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kolib0218/61 |
Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain
Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal
Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Correspondence re Claims,
Brussels. 4 Apr
1919 to 22 May 1919
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Billeting certificates |
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Settlement of claims |
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Payment for wall paper
etc |
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