GB 0120 MSS.8039-8041 - Crompton, Private Richard Ernest (b.1874)

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GB 0120 MSS.8039-8041

Title

Crompton, Private Richard Ernest (b.1874)

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  • 1915-1918 (Creation)

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2 volumes, 1 form, 6 photos

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Biographical history

Richard Ernest Crompton was a 41-year-old gas-inspector in Bolton who enlisted in the RAMC in August 1915 for the duration of the war and served with the 93rd Field Ambulance. He was a widower with two daughters, Celia and Dora, apparently being looked after by his sister-in-law, Margaret Rushton.

Archival history

GB 0120 MSS.8039-8041 1915-1918 Collection (fonds) 2 volumes, 1 form, 6 photos Crompton , Richard Ernest , b 1874 , gas inspector

Richard Ernest Crompton was a 41-year-old gas-inspector in Bolton who enlisted in the RAMC in August 1915 for the duration of the war and served with the 93rd Field Ambulance. He was a widower with two daughters, Celia and Dora, apparently being looked after by his sister-in-law, Margaret Rushton.

Purchased from David White Antiquarian Books, March 2003.

Diaries, Army Form B20, and miscellaneous photographs, of Private Richard Ernest Crompton (b 1874), 93rd Field Ambulance, RAMC, 1915-1918.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

English

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Jan 2009 Toxicology Poisoning Gas poisoning Medical sciences Military medicine Wars (events) World wars (events) World War One (1914-1918) Pathology Crompton , Richard Ernest , b 1874 , gas inspector Royal Army Medical Corps

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Purchased from David White Antiquarian Books, March 2003.

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Scope and content

Diaries, Army Form B20, and miscellaneous photographs, of Private Richard Ernest Crompton (b 1874), 93rd Field Ambulance, RAMC, 1915-1918.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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English

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Wellcome Library

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In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • English

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