Harold Redmayne papers

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 206 Liddle Collection RUH 44
  • Dates of Creation
      1915-1977
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 file; manuscript, typescript, photographs with negatives, a press cutting, and printed material Includes various camp membership and cigarette cards

Scope and Content

Issue No. 1 of Ruhleben Camp News (Jan. 1915); Publication The Ruhleben Bye-Election (1915); Handbook of the Ruhleben Football Association (1915); Typescript rules relating to elections and camp finances (n.d.); Manuscript notes relating to the reference library (n.d.); Manuscript notes relating to the funeral of Captain Tyndall (16 Oct. 1918); 12 photographs and two negatives (1916-1918); Issue of In Ruhleben Camp (Sep. 1915); 2 issues of The Ruhleben Camp Magazine (Dec. 1916, June 1917); Issue of La Vie Franaise de Ruhleben (14 July 1916); Manuscript and typescript notes relating to possible disbandment of the camp (n.d.); 17 Ruhleben Theatre and Concert programmes (1915-1918); Typescript of The Ruhleben Song (n.d.); 2 copies of Tercentenary Shakespeare Festival song-sheet (23-30 Apr. 1916); Press cutting (21 Sep. 1917); Prospectus of work for Autumn Term at Ruhleben Camp School (1917); 2 Camp Expenses Accounts (1918); Manuscript notes relating to the Foreign Office (n.d.); Voting paper (n.d.); Envelope of camp membership cards and cigarette cards (1917-1918); Letter from Ruhleben Camp School Office (24 June 1918); Letter from the Captains' Committee (31 Oct. 1918); Manuscript recollections (n.d.); Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (Oct. 1977).

Administrative / Biographical History

Harold Redmayne (b. 1887 at Didsbury in Manchester) was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He worked as an accountant in Manchester and Paris before taking up a post in Berlin in June 1914. Arrested on suspicion of spying, he was held as a British Civil Prisoner of War and interned at Ruhleben, 1914-1918, living in Barrack No. 5, Barrack No. 13 and Barrack No. 21. He was elected on to Ruhleben Camp Council.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The papers were placed in the Collection by H. Redmayne in 1977 and 1978. See Ruhleben Correspondence File.

Note

In English

Other Finding Aids

Alternative Form Available

Microfilmed

Related Material

Tapes 467 and 469: interview recorded with Peter Liddle in Oct. 1977.