Catalogue description Guy Warneford Nightingale: Papers

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Details of PRO 30/71
Reference: PRO 30/71
Title: Guy Warneford Nightingale: Papers
Description:

These records include:

  • letters from Lieut, later Major Guy W Nightingale to his family, 1910 to 1926
  • his diary for the year 1915
  • a typescript essay by his mother Mrs Alice Nightingale
  • letters to Mrs Nightingale from Capt T W Filgate, 1915.

The letters form an unbroken narrative, except for periods of leave.

Also included is a volume of newspaper cuttings relating to the war service of Nightingale's cousin, Flight-Sub-Lieutenant R A J Warneford, VC, RNAS.
Date: 1910-1926
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Not Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Guy Warneford Nightingale, 1890-1935
Physical description: 7 volume(s)
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 1974

in 1974 C M F Coleman, Mrs, 1974-1974
Administrative / biographical background:

Major Nightingale was born in 1890 and educated at Rugby and Sandhurst before being commissioned into his regiment, the 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, in the late summer of 1910. He served with the regiment in India and Burma; at Gallipoli with the 29th Division, landing from HMT River Clyde on 25th April 1915, and on the Western Front in France.

In 1919 he went with the 46th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on the North Russian Expenditionary Force based at Archangel, and was there engaged in fighting the Bolshevik armies. In 1921 until March 1922 he was with his regiment with the British Forces in Silesia, Poland. From 1922-1923 Major Nightingale served with the 1st Yemen Infantry, in and around Aden and on the Southern Arabian coast. His last posting was to the 4th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment, at Ibadan, from 1925 to 1926.

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