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Wolverhampton
and the Great War Further Sources The following items are available for consultation in our public search room: Topic Areas •
General The Home Front
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Peace,
Celebrations and Remembrance
The First World War & Wolverhampton: a collection of documentary sources, Wolverhampton Archives, 1989 (L94) A History of Wolverhampton, C Upton, 1998 (L9UPT) A Century of Wolverhampton, N Williams, 1999 (L9WIL) Express and Star Wolverhampton Chronicle School log books 1914 - 1918 (D-EDS) Photograph collection - armed forces, peace celebrations, war memorials etc Wolverhampton Council Watch Committee minutes 1914 - 1918 (CMB-WOL-C-WAT) Women's Volunteer Reserve newspaper cuttings and photographs, 1915 - 1916 (photocopies) (DX-717) Wolverhampton Council Reports 1916-1918 (CMB-WOL-C-REP/9) War Loan Committee minutes 1916-17 (CMB-WOL-C-MISC/27) National Relief Fund Committee minutes, St James Ward 1914-15 (CMB-WOL-MISC-31) National Relief Fund Wolverhampton Representative Committee minutes 1914-1919 (DX-152) Newspaper cuttings albums 1914-1915 (L07)
National
Registration Committee minutes 1915-1918 Recruiting Committee minutes 1914-15 (CMB-WOL-C-MISC/18) Recruiting Sub-committee minutes, Graiseley and St John's Wards 1914 (CMB-WOL-C-MISC/39) National
Service Act Committee minutes 1917 Central Recruiting Committee minutes 1915 (CMB-WOL-C-MISC/49) Papers
of Private Jesse Hill of the South Wales Borderers Letters
between Wilfred Edwards (36661 5th Platoon, B cpy, 1st Gloucesters,
BEF France) and Lillian Wigall at Wolverhampton In Flanders Fields, Staffordshire County Council Study Book, 1979 (S9SR) Photograph of South Staffs Yeomanry leaving Wolverhampton for First World War, c.1914 (DX-25/1) Wolverhampton Volunteer Rifle Corps at Burwarton Camp 1915 (L355) The
Staffordshire Yeomanry in the First and Second World Wars, The 5th North Staffords and the North Midland Territorials 1914-1919, W Meakin (S355) The War History of the Sixth Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment, 1924 (S355) Men Who Served: biographies of Wolverhampton soldiers in the First World War (L94) A Pennfields Hero, A Dunphy, The Blackcountryman, Summer 1998, (S052) Diary of Charles Wallbank of Wolverhampton (Wallbank served in the 'A' Signal Company, Royal Engineers on the Western Front and in Serbia) 1916 - 1917 (photocopy) (DX-714/1) Log book of the Wolverhampton Day Industrial School including newspaper cuttings concerning ex pupils in the war (DX/145) Royal
Hospital records (for treatment of wounded soldiers)
Bradley & Co., Albion Works, Bilston correspondence, tenders contracts etc, mainly for munitions and other war supplies c.1905-1919 (DB-6/4) Other business records (i.e. GKN Sankey, Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co.) are also available (DB) Wolverhampton
Council register of motor cars 1914-1916 Sunbeam Aero-Engines, A Brew, 1998 (L62913) Star Car - A Wolverhampton Legend, M Cotton, 1996 (L6292) Old Motor and Vintage Commercial, April-May 1961 (L6292SR) AJS of Wolverhampton, SJ Mills, 1994 (L6292) The Story of Villiers 1898-1948, Villiers Engineering Co Ltd, 1948 (L6292275) Wolverhampton Council Watch Committee minutes 1914 - 1918 (CMB-WOL-C-WAT)
Bilston Borough Council Food Office ration posters and application forms c. 1914 - 1918 (C-UD-BIL/2/5/1)
School log books 1914 - 1918 (D-EDS) Wolverhampton
Education Committee Reports 1914 -1918
Zeppelins Over the Black Country, M Powis, The Blackcountryman, Summer 1996 (S052) Bradley Zeppelin bomb victims 1916, Black Country Bugle, July 1994 (S07SR) A Brief History of Black Country Aviation, A Brew, 1993 (S62913) Insurance
policy against loss or damage by aircraft 1916 Wolverhampton Council Watch Committee minutes 1914 - 1918 (CMB-WOL-C-WAT)
Wolverhampton Roll of Remembrance 1914-1918 (L94) Wolverhampton
Council War Memorial Committee minutes Contract for erection of a war memorial near St Peter's Church 1922 (D-LEG/1922/3-66) Programme on unveiling the Wolverhampton War Memorial by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee 1922 (CMB-WOL-D-CE) Wolverhampton Mayor's War Memorial Fund cash books 1922 - 1972 (CMB-WOL-D-CE) Casualties with 'Wolverhampton' in the register listings, from the database of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Includes casualties from the First and Second World Wars as well as civilian casualties. Arranged by the country and place of burial (L94) Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919, part 42, South Staffordshire Regiment (S355) List of men from Bushbury parish who served during the First World War (photocopy) (DX-706/3) Newhampton Road Wesleyan Church Roll of Honour 1914 - 1919: portraits of our men with brief records of service 1920 (L2871) List of Mander Brothers employees who were killed in France in the First World War 1995 (L6677p) London and North Western Railwaymen roll of honour 1914 - 1919 (DX-255/5) Bilston Wesleyan Methodist Circuit papers re. World War I roll of honour 1918 (MC-BW/12/8) Bilston District Provident Society Roll of honour of men serving and killed during World War One 1914 - 1915 (D-SO-44/2/2/1) Programme for dinner and entertainments to returned prisoners of war at the Baths Assembly Rooms, Wolverhampton 1919 (DX-707/1) Plan of Compton Road war memorial 1920 (WTON/7073) Plan of Church Walk war memorial 1922 (WTON/7567) Papers re purchase of land at Chapel Street, Heath Town for a war memorial (C-UD-HT) Press cuttings re war memorials 1920s (D-JPJ/20) Wolverhampton Remembers: the story of the town's official war memorial, CR Haynes, 1996 (L94p) Wolverhampton Remembers: war memorials of Wolverhampton, CR Haynes, 1997 (L94p)
School log books (D-EDS) Wolverhampton Council Health Committee minutes 1918 - 1919 (CMB-WOL-HEA1) Wolverhampton Medical Officer of Health annual report 1918 (L3717) Bilston
Urban District Council Medical Officer of Health annual report 1918
(LB614)
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