Heinrich Balters papers

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 206 Liddle Collection GE 04
  • Dates of Creation
      1890-1916
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      German English
  • Physical Description
      1 file; manuscript, typescript (partly photocopy), and press cuttings.

Scope and Content

Miscellaneous letters and papers (1890-1915); Diary, found in a German dugout in the captured front line on 13 November 1916 by E.F. Wettern, Royal Naval Divisional Engineers (1915); Typescript translation of diary, with photocopies of maps and sketches (nd); Press cuttings, mainly biblical (1916).

Administrative / Biographical History

Heinrich Balters was a German soldier on the front line of the Western Front.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted.

Note

In German and English.

Other Finding Aids

Alternative Form Available

Microfilmed.

Related Material

See GS 1712: Wettern, EF.

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