Identity area
Reference code
1.
Title
Army life
Date(s)
- [c.1939]-1978 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
3 small boxes.
Context area
Name of creator
(1921-2001)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers from his time serving in the British army during WWII. Includes personal letters back home, a diary, and theatrical scripts and notes. Also, copies of photographs from army shows, sent to Harry Secombe by the daughter of one of his former army colleagues in 1978.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged as 3 files. Army diary and letters, Publications and ephemera, and Army theatricals.