Page from WW1 scrapbook, newspaper cuttings

Category

Library Item

Item no

30061

Title

Disaster off the Orkneys, newspaper cuttings

Description

A page from a World War One scrapbook (vol 2) showing 3 articles stuck in. At the top is a recruitment letter from Field Marshall Lord Horatio Kitchener and beneath is a headline from the Evening News of the sinking of the HMS Hampshire with Kitchener aboard.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1916

Size

27.5 x 22.0 cm

Type

Document; Press cutting

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This image is taken from the 2nd 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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