Identity area
Reference code
GB 2830 POL/5/1
Title
George Sprittles Scrapbook
Date(s)
- 1916 - 1919 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 scrapbook containing photographs and printed matter
Context area
Name of creator
(1893-1980)
Repository
Archival history
Original scrapbook was held by Iain Poole, retired Lecturer at Leeds Met who was gifted the book by Sprittle’s neice Joyce Pogson, who had been a Principal Lecturer in History at the City of Leeds and Carnegie College. Iain Poole donated it to the archive in 2007.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Iain Poole
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The scrapbook contains mainly photographs of hospital staff, including officers and other ranks, nurses and patients of the 2nd Northern General Hospital. Other ephemera are pasted in, including George Sprittles call up papers.