Crompton, Private Richard Ernest (b.1874)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0120 MSS.8039-8041 |
Held at | : Wellcome Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ › |
Full title | : Crompton, Private Richard Ernest (b.1874) |
Date(s) | : 1915-1918 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 2 volumes, 1 form, 6 photos |
Name of creator(s) | : Crompton | Richard Ernest | b 1874 | gas inspector |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Richard Ernest Crompton was a 41-year-old gas-inspector in Bolton who enlisted in the RAMC in August 1915 for the duration of the war and served with the 93rd Field Ambulance. He was a widower with two daughters, Celia and Dora, apparently being looked after by his sister-in-law, Margaret Rushton.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Diaries, Army Form B20, and miscellaneous photographs, of Private Richard Ernest Crompton (b 1874), 93rd Field Ambulance, RAMC, 1915-1918.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased from David White Antiquarian Books, March 2003.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009
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