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Manuscript Collections

National

Imperial War Museum

P. McGregor Letters 87/56/1

C.C. [Charlie] May Diary 91/23/1

W.P. Nevill Letters 66/140/1 and 1A and Con Shelf

C. T. Newman Letters 03/5/1

B. A. Reader Letters 83/3/1

W.B.P. Spencer Letters 86/56/1

J.W. Streets Letters 67/117/2

D.J. Sweeney Letters 76/226/1 and 1A and Con Shelf

National Archives

War Office Papers

National Library of Ireland

Coffey and Chenevix Trench Archive

National Trust

Arlington Court Archives

Local

Merton College, Oxford: Chenevix Trench Archive

Sherwood Foresters Regimental Museum: 2/5th Battalion, Operation Orders, Diary of Events 1917–1918

In private hands

Herbert Trench Archive

Newman Archive

Stanway Archive

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