PP/1/2/3/3 - [Correspondence with Lilian Pritchard from HMS "Lion"]

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[Correspondence with Lilian Pritchard from HMS "Lion"]

1918-1919

58 items Letters (MS)

Pritchard, Lilian
Pritchard, Fleetwood
Clifford, Nancy
Moncrieff, May
Wagener, J. Andreas

Lion (ship)

Contains letters written from on board HMS "Lion", which Pritchard joined in March 1918, as well as letters written from Scottish hospitals where he recovered from mumps and an injured knee. The letters give a basic outline of life aboard HMS "Lion", the tasks Pritchard carried out, rivalry onboard ship between graduates of Keyham and Dartmouth naval colleges. He also asks after family and friends especially his brother Fleetwood Pritchard who served in Italy with the army and was awarded the Military Cross, his twin sisters, Nancy and May, and J.A. Wagener. Not fully catalogued at item level.