┆Bound album, with title 'Souvenirs of the Great War' on spine. The album belonged to William Robert Bradshaw and contains photographs and documents relating to the First World War (1914-1918). Many of the items are missing, with only a handwritten description or title indicating what the items were. Bradshaw's handwritten notes on some pages indicate that he was still adding items to this collection as late as 1942. Items in the album include: photograph of Bradshaw's wife and three children; photographs of Bradshaw and fellow recruits during training at Knowsley Hall, Prescot, Tournament Hall, Liverpool and Grantham; photographs of Bradshaw with fellow soldiers in Belgium; photograph of Bradshaw's "great friend," Joseph Stringer, who was killed at Guillemont in 1916 \[BRAD/WRB/1 includes a dedication by Bradshaw to Joseph Stringer\]; official letters notifying Bradshaw's wife of him being missing (April and May 1918) and a Prisoner of War (June 1918); postcard from Bradshaw with his postal address while a PoW (August 1918); correspondence between the Liverpool City Battalions' Prisoner of War Care Committee and Mrs. Bradshaw (1918); postcard photograph of Sec. Lieut. Harry Derbyshire and a news-clipping about him being reported dead and then getting in touch with his family - he was the officer that Bradshaw was carrying to safety when they were both taken prisoner in March 1918 \[see BRAD/WRB/1\]; a larger photograph of Harry Derbyshire, with a note on the reverse that he visited the Bradshaws at home in 1919; postcards that Bradshaw sent home; one of Bradshaw's wage slips from working at an iron mine in Dülmen while a PoW (1918); correspondence from the War Office regarding burials in Eppeville Churchyard, France - Bradshaw was trying to identify if they were soldiers he helped to bury (1930).
