Photographs. Photograph album. Photographs of a picnic with officers of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. || Lieutenant acting Captain Cyril Douglas Morgan was an officer in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was awarded the Military Cross, being wounded several times. In 1918 he was badly wounded and spent two nights lying unattended on the battlefield. The surgeon later told him that this had probably saved his life as an attempt to move him whilst losing blood would have been fatal. He spent two years in Millbank Hospital, Westminster and many more visits thereafter. The contributor mentions an anecdote concerning Lt Morgan having to pick up an absent officer from a house of ill-repute in Paris. Then later added fruit salts to his chamberpot so that on urinating the contents of the chamberpot frothed - a sure sign apparently of VD! He resumed his career with the Corporation of London, ending as Principal Clerk to the Chamberlain, and volunteered for Civil Defence in the sixties after retiring. He died in 1982 aged 87.

Picture of Maycock as a child (possibly with his father) ; war grave card with photograph of grave ; silk handkerchief with map of the battle lines. || Cyril George Maycock was a corporal in the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 44th Coy. He was killed near Arras on 23 April 1917. One of his comrades later visited Maycock's mother and told her that he had been killed instantly, blown to pieces. He is buried in Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt. || || Grave card || Details about the location of the grave of Cyril George Maycock || || Memorabilia || Map on handkerchief || Showing battle lines || || Trench Life || Memorabilia || Map on handkerchief (2) || || Photograph || Photograph of C. G Maycock as a child || Front || Possibly with his father || || Back || Back of picture card || Back of photograph of C. G. Maycock as a child

Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg VC GCMG KCB KBE DSO*** KStJ (21 March 1889 – 4 July 1963), , Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, was awarded the V.C. for bravery at the village of Beaucourt, during the Battle of the Somme. Freyberg, a New Zealander, was in command of Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Previously he had fought in the Mexican civil war, and earlier in the First World War he had been wounded at Antwerp, Belgium, and swum ashore during landing at Gallipoli when he was awarded the D.S.O.was a British-born New Zealand Victoria Cross recipient and soldier who later served as the seventh Governor-General of New Zealand. A veteran of the Mexican Revolution, he became an officer in the British Army during the First World War. Freyberg took part in the beach landings during the Gallipoli Campaign and was the youngest general in the British Army during the First World War, later serving on the Western Front where he was decorated with the Victoria Cross and three DSOs, making him one of the most highly decorated British Empire officers of the First World War. He liked to be in the thick of action — Churchill called him he Salamander due to his ability to pass through fire unharmed. The attached account of his actions was written by James Price Lloyd of the Welsh Regiment, who served with Military Intelligence. After the war, the government to destroyed all the archives relating to this propaganda (section MI 7b (1)). They were regarded as being too sensitive to risk being made public. Remarkably these documents have survived in the personal records of Captain Lloyd. Many of these papers are officially stamped, and one can trace the development of many individual articles from the notes based on an idea, to the pencil draft which is then followed by the hand-written submission and the typescript. The archive Tales of the VC comprises 94 individual accounts of the heroism that earned the highest award for valour, the Victoria Cross. These are recounted deferentially and economically, yet they still manage to move the reader. Date stamp: 28 March 1918 and URGENT. || Article with annotations.