Photograph of Lieut. Leslie Gordon Lee, MC, MA (Oxon) || This story is about my father Leslie Gordon Lee. In November 1914 he was living in Cowley in Oxford and studying Classics at Jesus College; he was 22 years old (he took his war B.A. in 1916). He was commissioned in November 1914 as a lieutenant in the 9th Yorks (Service) Battalion, stationed at Folkestone and Maidstone in Kent in February 1915 and landing at Boulogne in August 1915. On 5th July 1916, he fought in the assault and capture of Horseshoe Trench at the Battle of the Somme and on 10th July 1916 his brigade took part in the Battle of Contalmaison, to capture a heavily defended position known as 'Bailiff Wood'. He was shot in the head and evacuated via Rouen to the hospital ship 'St Andrew' and from there to the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital in London. He was awarded the Military Cross in January 1917 and in February 1917 was appointed to the Contracts Department in the Ministry of Munitions. After the war, he became a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Labour but suffered from very poor health (and had to have many examinations and health checks). He died in 1936 of tuberculosis as a result of the chlorine gas he had breathed in during the war. || || Photograph || A portrait photograph of my father, Leslie Gordon Lee, in the uniform of the 9th Yorks.(Service) Battalion. || Leslie Gordon Lee || A photograph of my father, Leslie Gordon Lee || || Leslie Gordon Lee || Trench Life || Other

Map showing location and dimensions of 'New Military Road' running south-west to north east from Galway's Walk to the junction of Barrack Bridge, Usher's Island and Walling Street on the south bank of the River Liffey with surrounding lands noted as being let from Viscount Palmerstown to Mr Kelly. Scale: 80 feet to an inch. Materials: Ink and water colours. Seal of Alexander Worthington visible on scanned image.

A British patriotic postcard. || The printed information on the back of this black-and-white postcard includes a stamp box containing the words ‘Inland Postage 1/2d. / Foreign Postage 1d.’ This dates the postcard to some time before 3 June 1918, when inland postage rates for postcards went up to 1d. Four children wearing fancy dress posed in front of a Union flag for the photographic scene printed on the front of the postcard. Her helmet and trident identify the girl standing at the back as the personification of Britannia. In front of her are a boy in a sailor suit; a girl wearing a nurse’s uniform; and a boy dressed as a British soldier. A sign around the ‘nurse’s’ neck reads: ‘FOR THE RELIEF OF OUR ARMY & NAVY’. || || A British patriotic postcard, 'For the relief of our army and navy'. || Postcard