I apologise again for using experts time up, but I had thought I could of resolved this with out bringing it to a public forum but it seems all the experts I have previously contacted do not wish to reply to messages I have sent to them via several different forums.
Does anyone know of anyone who has photographed the entire Henshall archive at the Imperial War Museum? And secondly willing to share two sides of A4e from it?
The Landships site is a fantastic source of information but from my very own limited research into the 1st Battalion, I can see that what is listed there are abridged versions of events, so what I am really looking for is information direct from the horses mouth.
I have already started the ball rolling and contacted a private researcher of the Great War who will, for a very reasonable sum photograph the archive for me but I thought that I would give this forum a shot, in regards a public post.
Thank you again for all the great support and encouragement this forum has given me in regards my research.
The Henshall collection at the IWM is extensive, and I don't think that the IWM allows photography of their document archive (unlike The National Archives). I have visited it and made notes from the archive. I also have photocopies of some pages, but do not have a complete copy of everything. Far from it, in fact.
Do you know if the archive is well organised? For example, is all material pertaining to one Battalion lumped into several organised boxes?
If one were only interested in the 1st Battalion would it be a simple case of opening the relevant boxes or is all the material jumbled up and not necessarily in chronological order?
Sorry for the rather amateur questioning but I have never looked at any archives at the IWM and haven't a clue how organised their research material is.
Thank you.
-- Edited by watercarrier on Wednesday 10th of June 2015 04:49:07 PM
In my experience of archives, there is no greater joy than finding something completely misfiled so that you're the first person to look at it in 70 or 100 years.
There's boxes of it, and whilst I don't recall how it was organised precisely I don't think you can ever expect to open one box of several and find all that you want. However I've just got my notes out and there is nothing about A / 1st Battalion. Most relates to B Battalion in 1917 and 4th Battalion in 1918.
Why do you think there's A / 1st Battalion material there?
