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Russian travel diary by John Headlam, March 1917 (Pdf, 19 pages, 208KB) 

Russian travel diary by John Headlam, March 1917 (Pdf, 7 pages, 143KB) 

Travel diary of John Headlam


Account of the Russian Revolution, March 1917


Letter from Major General Sir John Headlam to Geoffrey Wycliffe “Tuppy” Headlam:

CRUCK MEOLE HOUSE,
HANWOOD,
NR SHREWSBURY
25.5.19

My dear Tuppy

You asked me, when we were in town, to lend you my Russian diary. I haven’t forgotten, though I’ve been a long time hunting it out, & here it is. Let me have it back anytime.

May & the girls are all away at the sea & Eddie & I are keeping house with Madge’s daughter as“company”!

Yours affectly
John Headlam

Major General Sir John Headlam’s archives are to be found at the Imperial War Museum:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030021634
They include photographs taken during the period he describes in the travel diary:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205002990

Author: John Headlam

Reference: D/He 299

Where to find this: Durham County Record Office

Contributed by Daniel Hyatt | Norma Corner

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