Description: Contains photocopied material. Mostly letters and postcards sent by QM Sergeant Henry Thomas Norton (known as Harry Norton) to his wife Florence, son Leonard and daughter Jean during World War I. Letters were written whilst he was training in New Zealand, at sea en route to Europe, in Egypt and in the trenches in France between 1915 and 1916. Folder 1 contains some letters from Charles H. Matthews, brother of Florence Norton, written whilst serving in South Africa during the South African War. Many letters included flowers or seeds collected from the battlefield in France and other ephemera. Folder 7 contains official letters about Norton's gravesite written during the 1920s. All items, with the exception of the typed transcripts, are photocopies of photocopies.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Contains photocopied material. Mostly letters and postcards sent by QM Sergeant Henry Thomas Norton (known as Harry Norton) to his wife Florence, son Leonard and daughter Jean…

Description: Hand-drawn and coloured memoriam (39 x 31 cm, mounted on cardboard) honouring the bravery of 477639 Sergeant Charles Unsworth McGrath, MM, Royal Canadian Regiment, who was killed on [8] October 1916, at Somme, France.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Hand-drawn and coloured memoriam (39 x 31 cm, mounted on cardboard) honouring the bravery of 477639 Sergeant Charles Unsworth McGrath, MM, Royal Canadian Regiment, who was…