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- 1901-1902, 1914 / (Creation)
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132 ff. Guarded and filed.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Julian Browning; London; Purchase; 1995
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Some sixty letters, 1901-1902, from Lieutenant Thomas Lewis Prichard, first Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, South Africa Field Force, to his parents, the Rev. and Mrs Thomas Prichard, Llanbadrig Vicarage, Anglesey. Written mostly from South Africa, they describe his experiences on active service during the South African War, 1901-1902, including accounts of skirmishes with the Boers and the progress towards peace (ff. 1-121). Also included are four letters, 1914, relating to his service in France, where he died on 11 November 1914 (ff. 122-129).
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Language and script notes
English.
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Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
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Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23384D.
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Name access points
- Great Britain. Army. Royal Welch Fusiliers. 1st Battalion. South Africa Field Force. (Subject)
- Llanbadrig Vicarage (Llanbadrig, Wales) (Subject)
- Prichard, Thomas Lewis, 1880-1914 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Prichard, Thomas, Rev., b. 1847 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Prichard, Thomas, Rev., b. 1847. (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
April 2009.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS;