Tom Thorp papers

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 206 Liddle Collection GO 14
  • Dates of Creation
      1919-1945
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 file; typescript, photographs with negatives, and printed certificates Includes 2 badges, a name tag, and a bread ration book

Scope and Content

3 photographs, with negatives (1919, n.d.); Protection and identity certificate (Nov. 1919); Certificate of Transfer to Reserve (Dec. 1919); Home Guard identity card (Sep. 1940); Home Guard certificate (ca. 1945); Typescript list of members of Ardsley Company of the Local Defence Volunteer Force (n.d.); 2 badges (n.d.); Name tag (n.d.); German bread ration book (n.d.).

Administrative / Biographical History

Tom Baden Thorp (b. 1900), Private, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, was called up in June 1918 and served in occupied Germany after the First World War. He also served with the Home Guard in the Second World War from July 1940 to Dec 1944.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The papers were placed in the Collection by J. B. Thorp (son).

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

Alternative Form Available

Microfilmed

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