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00018 - W. G. Gibbs collection
1 - Personal Papers
2 - Leicester Daily Post
3 - Leicester War Hospitals Committee
1 - Letter to Walter George Gibbs, Hon. Sec. of 5th Northern Hospital, Leicester from Captain A.C.Cooper, 4th Leicestershire Regiment with thanks for goods sent to the troops
2 - Letter to Walter George Gibbs from Ethel, Lady Beatty (Vice President of LWHC) concerning the recent flag day and the disabled sailors at Brooksby Naval Hospital
3 - Letter to Walter George Gibbs from Queen’s Private Secretary acknowledging receipt of 3rd Annual Report of Leicester War Hospitals Committee
4 - Letter to Walter George Gibbs from the War Office acknowledging receipt of 3rd Annual Report
5 - Programme for Special Matinee in aid of the Leicester War Hospitals Committee at the Palace Theatre, Leicester
6 - Letter to Walter Geroge Gibbs from King’s Private Secretary acknowledging receipt of the “Leicester Daily Post” with reports of the royal visit
7 - Copy of letter from Walter George Gibbs to Queen’s Private Secretary written to accompany 5th Report of the Leicester War Hospitals Committee
8 - Copy of the Charity Commission War Charities Act 1916 (HMSO)
9 - Photograph of packs of tobacco to be distributed by the Leicester War Hospitals Committee
10 - Photograph of crates of tobacco and cigarettes etc to be distributed by the Leicester War Hospitals Committee
11 - Photograph of a group of soldiers and civilians with a framed certificate (?outside Base Hospital, Leicester).
12 - Photograph of a group of convalescent servicemen and civilians with two gramophones. Includes (?)Walter George Gibbs (seated on extreme left by gramophone)
13 - Photograph of a group of young men (?servicemen) in civilian clothes. Also some in naval uniform and a group of cadets in army uniform. Location not known (?possibly Brooksby Hall)
14 - Photograph of Admiral Beatty with Col. Louis Harrison (O.C. Base Hospital), W.G.Gibbs (on far right) and Beatty’s son Cadet David Beatty, on the way to visit Base Hospital on the day the Freedom of the City of Leicester was conferred on him 25 July 1919
15 - Photograph of Admiral Beatty visiting wounded servicemen at Base Hospital, Leicester with W.G.Gibbs (holding basket)
16 - Copy of the “Leicester Daily Post” with reports on the visit of Admiral Beatty to receive the Freedom of the City
17 - Signed portrait photograph of Admiral Beatty presented by him to Walter George Gibbs at the end of the war as a souvenir of the link bewteen Brroksby Naval Hospital and the Leicester War Hospitals Committee of which Gibbs was Secretary
18 - “Leicester Mail” Peace Supplement. Includes extensive report on the work of the hospitals and their personnel
19 - MS Report of the work of the committee
4 - War Time Fundraising & Other Events
5 - Peace Celebrations
6 - Royal Visit to Leicester
7 - Great Meeting & Leicester Domestic Mission
8 - University College Leicester
9 - Newspapers
10 - Miscellaneous
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