Catalogue description Capt W.M. Lummis, MC, 2nd Battalion

(a) Company orders and notes (mainly relating to 'X' Company):

- message and signal pad sheets

- intelligence reports

- statements of evidence against men on charges

- work reports

- notes on billeting

- list of officers and NCOs, 'Y' company, 3 Apr 1916

- plan of Battalion front south of Hinges, 25 Jul 1918

(b) Company orders and notes, 'X' Company:

- message and signal pad sheets

- lists of casualties

- nominal rolls

- recommendations for gallantry

(c) Miscellaneous papers, as Company Commander:

- orders

- nominal roll, 'X' Company, Jan 1919

-list of men in 'B' Company to join the 4th Battalion, n.d. [early 1919]

(d) Book of counterfoil billeting certificates, France

(e) Book of counterfoil billeting certificates, France

(f) 31 postcard photographs of officers and men (many named), mainly 'X' Company, 2nd Battalion

(g) 6 photographs of groups, including 2nd Battalion Corps of Drums, 1913; troops in Duren, Germany, Jan 1919, and Paris, Jul 1919

Capt W.M. Lummis, MC, 2nd Battalion

(h) Photograph of men in ward, Ontario Military Hospital, Orpington (sent by W.R. Clark, Lummis' servant in 'Y' company, Mar-Apr 1916)

(i) Photograph of 4th Battalion Concert Party (named), Belgium

(j) Portion of Daily Sketch

(k) Portion of News of the World

(l) 11 photographs of officers and men (some named) of 2nd Battalion at Gymnich, Germany

(m) Photograph of officers of the 1st Battalion (named)

(n) The Great War... I was there, Part 1

(o) Notes on Thomas Bewick, the Battle of Minden and Lady Butler

(p) Biographical notes on some officers and men with whom Capt Lummis had served, with correspondence with and relating to others

(q) Alphabetical list of members of the 2nd Battalion eligible for the 1914 Star

Gives name, rank, number, company, date of arrival in France, former regiment

(r) Printed maps of portions of the Western Front, including trench maps

Various scales (12 sheets)

(s) Printed map of part of Essex (Wivenhoe - West Mersea)

Scale: 1:20,000

(t) Printed map of the Andover area

Scale: 1" to 2 miles

(u) 'X' Company nominal rolls, company reports and recommendations for awards

(v) Nominal roll of NCOs, 'X' Company

(w) Nominal rolls, 'X' Company

(x) Roll of officers serving with the 2nd Battalion (Mar 1916-Apr 1919); recommendations for awards made by Capt Lummis (Jun-Sep 1918)

(y) Notes on activities of 'X' Company around Hinges

(z) Four letters addressed to Pioneer Georg Unfried, picked up on the battlefield

(aa) Two studio portraits of Capt M.S. Chase

(bb) Aerial photograph of Zonnebeke

(cc) Photograph of officers, senior NCOs and ex-senior NCOs (named)

(dd) Miscellaneous papers

(ee) Press-cuttings relating to the regiment

(ff) File of miscellaneous papers, including 3 photographs of front line, 1918, and recommendation of award of MC to 2nd Lieut H.B. Rolph, 2nd Battalion, 23 Oct 1918

(gg) 9 photographs of groups (some named) and Colours

(hh) Mounted aerial photographs (19) of area around Hingette, La Pannerie, Flesquieres and Hinges, with captions, to illustrate activities of 'X' Company, 2nd Battalion

(ii) Parish magazines of Voormezeele, Belgium, containing translation of Capt Lummis's notes on fighting in the area

[with trench map and correspondence]

(jj) Photograph of kit lay-out