My father, George Joseph Lockwood, was born in 1891. He had not been allowed to go to university by his own father but he was recruited to work in the Ecclesiastical Commission via the Civil Service examination, in which he came 2nd in the country in his intake. He then took the Inter BSc at evening classes. He remained passionate about learning throughout his life, ensuring his three daughters received good educations. He was 23 when the war broke out and throughout it, he compiled a series of notebooks recording the coverage of the war, gathered from newspapers, verbal reports and rumours. There are four notebooks described as Contemporary notes on the war, giving the chief points in the daily news and falsehoods and Current rumours etc concerning the war. As a discerning observer, his comments provide an interesting perspective on the reporting of the war. || Four note books containing hand-written notes and cuttings from newspapers, concerning all aspects of the war on all fronts. Total 230 pages, also available as one single pdf. || || The first of four notebooks containing hand-written notes and cuttings from newspapers, compiled by George Joseph Lockwood during the war. || 'Contemporary notes on the war' by a discerning observer || || War reporting, covering all fronts and aspects of the conflict || The war notebooks compiled by my father, George Lockwood || Four paper-bound notebooks containing 226 pages of comment on the progress and reporting of the war with newspaper cuttings and personal observations. || Other

Plan of 8 numbered holdings on south side of Essex Street with access to Temple Lane and Eustace Street. Giving boundary measurements and sometimes names of occupiers.

Medal and discharge certificate || My grandfather Isaac Marsh was a private in the Machine Gun Corps. He served overseas and was honorably discharged on 22nd March 1919 as he was disabled while on active service. The family believe he died when he was 78 years old (approximately 1979) and remembers that he worked as a manager at Tarmac and smoked a pipe.