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Press cutting of Endurance (Antarctic Expedition)
Unknown, 1915, Document, Press cutting
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Press cutting of Endurance (Antarctic Expedition)
Press cutting of Endurance (Antarctic Expedition)
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Item no
29792
Title
Bound for the Antarctic Regions
Description
A page from a World War One scrapbook (vol 1) shows a picture press cutting of The Endurance ship.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1915
Size
27.5 x 21.8 cm
Type
Document
;
Press cutting
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The Endurance was the vessel used the by the British Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Despite the outbreak of World War One the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, ordered the expedition to proceed and the Endurance left British waters on 8 August 1914.
This image is taken from the 1st of 2 scrapbooks compiled during World War One by the Thomson Family who were living at Glengyle Terrace in Edinburgh. Most of the items pasted into the scrapbooks are press cuttings, leaflets and ephemera but a couple of articles, such as letters and a ration book, give personal details and an indication of the impact of war on the family. Many of the letters of correspondence are sent to Thomas Thomson. Thomas Davidson Thomson was only 3 years old at the outbreak of war and so, his parents must have collated and maintained the scrapbooks, which span the full period of the war, on his behalf.
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Thomson Family WW1 scrapbooks (volume 1)
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