Work

Diary of William Raws, rifleman

Shelf Mark/Reference Number

• IE TCD MS 10853

Location

• Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin

Creator

• Raws, William, active 1914-1916, Author

Contributors

• Proctor, M. (Sister), Dedicatee
• Keating, M. I., Former owner
• Gee, L., active 1995, Former owner

Rights statement

• Copyright The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Images are available for single-use academic application only. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Date Created

• end 11-03-1916
• start 01-09-1914

Language

• English

Abstract

• IE TCD MS 10853 is ‘A diary of the events in my life in the army September 1st - 1914 [to] March 11th - 1916 by William Raws late rifleman 1st 6th (Rifle) 6th Kings. Liverpool regiment’' (typed title). Folio i verso has a pasted-in dedication to Sister M Proctor; folio ii recto has the signature of MI Keating, an owner of this volume; folio iii verso has a pasted-in photograph of William Raws 'in Dublin'; folio iii recto has autograph signature of the author beneath a typed preface. Soiled green cloth boards with gilt spine labelling. A transcription of the diary is available below. See the Manuscripts & Archives Research Library's catalogue entry here: https://manuscripts.catalogue.tcd.ie/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=IE+TCD+MS+10853&pos=1

Provenance

• Purchased from Mr L. Gee, Kilkenny on 1 November 1995 (through the good offices of Rev Mr Levistone Cooney, methodist minister).

Subject

• World war, 1914-1918--Diaries

Keyword

• Raws, William, active 1914-1916

Format

• Typescripts
• diaries
• Photographs

Resource type

• text

Medium

• ink

Support

• paper (fiber product)
• photographic paper
• book cloth (textile material)

Culture

• Irish

Digital Object Id

• MS10853_001

Source

• 0110009

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