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Records of the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Captain Albert Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1909-1919

Correspondence and Note Books Set Two

Captain Albert Hodgkinson was commissioned as Honorary Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 5th Battalion (Territorial Force) in 1909. He was mobilised in the summer of 1914 and served as Quartermaster throughout the war, serving with the battalion in France, Flanders, Brussels, Army of the Rhine and Ireland until they arrived back to Lancaster in late 1919.
The collection of material was described by him as "the carbon copies of every message I ever sent in the war". Albert Hodgkinson was Mentioned in Despatches three times.

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Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
“This is the first QM note and correspondence book, prior to using the usual Army Book 152.” “QM Private in Tin Box” 18 Feb 1915 to 8 Apr 1915. Book printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd, London.
This first note book includes notes which would have been important to a Quartermaster whose battalion was new in theatre and on operations. The 1st/5th Battalion was with the 83rd Brigade in the 28th Division, and were along side the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment.

	Billeting notes
	Battalion’s ammunition strength, 23 Feb 1915
	Battalion’s strength (personnel), for rations, 25 Feb 1915
	Notes on where to obtain supplies, including rum (64 men to a gallon), farms for wood and straw, paraffin, straw, coal, disinfectant, candles etc.
	Note of rations required for 1059 officers and men
	Dranoutre area notes.
	Instructions for the supply of vegetables, coke, coal, straw, etc,
	Anti-frost bite grease
	On page 55 there is a hand written note of the quantities of food supplied to men.

Item	Quantity
Bread	1¼ or 1 lb biscuit
Meat	1¼ or 1 lb preserved
Bacon	4 oz or butter
Tea	⅝ oz
Sugar	3 oz
Jam	4 oz
Salt	½ oz
Pepper	1/36 oz
Cheese	3 oz
Veg	½ lb fresh
Rum	1/64 gal
Tobacco	2 oz weekly
Lime Juice	1/10 gill

Hay	10 lbs any grade
Oats	15 lbs heavy 10 lbs light
Bran	occasionally
Beetroot	to buy

Details of carts available for transport.

2	General Service wagons – supplies
3	General Service wagons – stores
2	Hired carts – blankets
1	General Service wagon – trench stores
1	Maltese – medium equipment
1	Maltese – Trench stores
4	Cooks carts – for Cooking stores
2	Tool carts – for trenches
5	Small Arms Ammunition carts
2	Machine Gun Ammunition carts

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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 2 Jun 1916 to 5 Jul 1916. Book Number 1
“In Jun 1916 notes between various members of the battalion mostly notes from the QM department were kept in separate ‘QM Notes books’ This is number 1 of the series”
Book printed by Willmott & Sons. Ltd., London, in Mar 1916.

	Record of Green Envelopes, Jun 1916
	Issue of tinted glasses
	Battalion order No. 26, 7 Jun 1916, Orders for QM Staff and Transport
	Notes for 8 Jun 1916
	List of kit to be carried on the man, 16 Jun 1916
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: smoke helmets, satchels, machine gun covers, steel helmets, telescopic rifles, rations, rum, equipment, Military Medal ribbon, jerkins and blankets, the late CO’s Helmet, cyclists, soap, new drafts, fresh beef, weight of officers valises, gas cylinders, bomber badges, folding saws, bomb buckets, grenade carriers, sniperscopes, shoemaker, range finder, Revd. Hindley, wire cutters, rifle, and vegetables.
	Letters QM to Sergeant Brockbank concerning: personnel and sick reports etc and the new Chaplains Kit.
	Letter QM to Medical Officer concerning: whitewash.
	Letter QM to Armourer Sergeant Davies concerning: vermoral sprayers.

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	List of Quartermaster’s Staff included in Transport Platoon, 31 Mar 1917.
	HQ Mess Accounts 15 Apr 1917
	List of special equipment in possession of HQ, 5 Apr 1917, including Webley pistols, whistles, saws, pocket compasses, telescopic sights, binoculars, watches, handcuffs, bugle (Private Holland).
	Note about inspection 11 Apr 1917 of leather jerkins, fur coats and cardigans.
	Letters QM to Sergeant Brockbank re personnel, sick reports etc.

	Letters QM to Officer Commanding concerning: fire at ‘C’ Camp and loses, 14 Jan 1917, Post Bags, Lewis Guns, cookers, illness of Private McGrow’s father, caps muzzle attachment, equipment deficiencies, rifles for rifle grenades.
	Letters QM to Adjutant, concerning: water, fuel, notice board, post bags, rat traps, drafts, painting grenade rifles, armourer, shortages
	Letters QM to Major Milnes concerning: fuel, rations, return of post bags, rubbish from billets, ammunition in rubbish ‘popping off’ in the incinerator, large sausages
	Letters QM to Company Commanders, concerning Lewis Guns, 2 Apr 1917
	Letter QM to RQMS Grindrod concerning: Limbers
	Letter QM to Medical Officer concerning: Latrine buckets
	Letter QM to MO Red Farm Dressing Station, re Private Wood who is sick, swallowed a tunic button, 11 Apr 1917.
	Letter QM to QM 1/10 Liverpool Scottish concerning Cook on course.
	Letters QM to Corps Disinfecting Station and Divisional Baths re 200 blankets, Apr 1917
	Letter QM to NCO in charge of Cemetery, Vlamertinghe, please arrange for grave for one man killed today, 12 Apr 1917, Private S L Hughes, number 242572, age 19, son of Alfred Henry and Harriett Hughes of Prince’s End, Tipton, Staffs.
	Bath/disinfected certificates for Private R Walmsley, number 240882, 1st/4th King’s Own. Private F W Ratcliffe, number 241665, corporal Parsons, 243038 and Private H Matthews, number 240163, Apr 1917

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	Details of Transport, 16 Apr 1917
	Headquarters Mess Accounts Apr 1917
	Note of men killed 24 Apr 1917, Private J B Butcher, number 242390, Church of England and Private H Webster, number 242690, Wesleyan, probably for cross maker.

	Letters QM to Sergeant Brockbank re personnel etc
	Letters QM to Officer Commanding concerning: Captain Simpson’s binoculars, hairbrushes, 2nd Lieutenant Honey’s dental treatment, Private E W Bailey, number 242537, truss, gloves,
	Letters QM to Major Milnes, concerning: clean socks, sugar, dripping, acquittance rolls, telephone number, steel helmet covers, Corporal William Rollinson, number 242981, tailor, boots, socks and helmet covers. Peas and beans, Meat and Vegetable, Lewis gun magazines in Haversacks, baths, box respirators and tins and officer valises. 26 Apr 1917 covering: signalling wire, Lewis gun damaged, breech covers, muzzle protectors, ground signalling strips, rice, biscuits, milk, gas cylinders, petrol tins and blankets, ‘O’ Camp, and Companies in Ypres.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: dripping and frying in the line, losses of special equipment, sanitary man additional pay, meritorious medal ribbon, mail bags, stores and men killed.
	Letter QM to OC Signals, concerning: Candles.
	Letters QM to Medical Officer concerning: fuel, inspection of Lance corporal F Iniff, number 1506, 1st/5th King’s Own.
	Letter QM to 166 Brigade concerning: fuel allowance.
	Bath/disinfected certificates for Private J W Hargreaves, for cookery course, Lance corporal F Iniff, number 240221, for musketry course, Lance corporal J R Krelle, number 240190 and Private W Jackson, number 240518, for signalling course, Private G Bond, number 235030 proceeding to base, Private H Cumberbatch, number 241590, proceeding to base and Corporal L Hollingworth, number 242990 to 2nd Army A Office. Private J W Rowe, number 240346, to VIII Corps School. All 1st/5th King’s Own soldiers.

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	Transport Details for Move, 2 May 1917
	List of winter clothing returned, 4 May 1917, including Vests, woollen, gloves worsted and fingerless, blankets, leather jerkins, undercoats, fur, cardigans, capes, horse rugs, sheepskin coats, boots.

	Letters QM to Sergeant Brockbank re personnel etc
	Letters QM to Captain Harrison, concerning: Box respirator extensions
	Letters QM to Captain Harris, concerning: Rations, Blankets etc
	Letters QM to Major Milnes, concerning: helmet covers, none issue of Whale Oil in summer, return of Capes, Mackintosh,
	Letters QM to Adjutant, concerning: transport, Private Rawlinson sewing badges, boot repairs, bomb buckets, relief’s, white wash brushes, Private Yare, number 1751/240335.
	Letters QM to Medical Officer, concerning: condemned iron rations, primus stoves and siphons.
	Letter from RQMS Edward Grindrodd re Move and Transport, 11 May 1917, whilst QM absent on duty.
	Bath/disinfected certificates for Private W E Hardie, number 241523 and Private F Thompson, number 200616, 18 May 1917, “free from scabies and vermin”

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	Headquarters Mess Account, 25 May 1917
	Letters QM to Sergeant Brockbank re personnel etc
	Letters QM to Adjutant, concerning: leave, officer replacements, petrol tins, blankets, gum boots, luminous paint, water bottles, chaplain C K Wilson, CF, cyclist messengers, move, rubbish, Hellfire Corner.
	Letters QM to Medical Officer, concerning gramophone, muslin and fly sprayer
	Letters QM to Major Milnes, concerning tins, whitewash, water, padre, blankets, grenade rifles, oil drum for latrines, sterilizing tablets, and replacement of small articles of kit.
	Letter RQMS to Adjutant, concerning 60 tooth brushes, unserviceable.
	Letter Acting Quartermaster (Lieutenant J S Punchard) to Officer Commanding A Company concerning: Soda Syphons.
	Letter Acting Quartermaster (Lieutenant J S Punchard) to major Milnes, concerning axes, felling, unserviceable.
	Letters Acting Quartermaster (Lieutenant J S Punchard) to Adjutant concerning: goggles, anti gas, and Private Ralph, wounded 2 Jun 1917.
	Letter Acting Quartermaster (Lieutenant J S Punchard) to Medical Officer, concerning fly sprayer.
	Bath/disinfectant certificates for: men going to rest camp 20 May 1917

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	HQ Mess Accounts May 1917
	Special Equipment in Possession 5 Jun 1917
	Letter QM to Officer Commanding concerning: Baths.
	Letter QM to Major Milnes concerning: Menin Road, Water Rations, Shoe maker, leave pay.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: Reinforcements, packs, 2nd Lieutenant Bennett’s maps, personnel moves, gum boots, braziers, transport, Potijze Dump, Dragoon Farm, list of wounded at Red Farm, 16 Jun 1917, ‘two bicycles in the debris’ plus burial and numbers killed. Telescopic sights, box respirators, mobile reserve of bombs, baths, dumps and transport details for 28 Jun1917.
	Letter QM to Medical Officer concerning: gramophone
	Letter QM to OC B Company concerning underclothing exchanges, Lewis Gun.
	Letter QM to Captain Harriss concerning Chloride of Lime
	Letter QM concerning cookery course personnel, Jun 1917
	Bath/disinfectant certificates for: Sergeant Barnes, Private T Davies, number 242671 and Private R Rawlinson, number 240874, Corporal J Dolan, number 241298, Private W Westhead, number 240300, Private W Bellamy, number 242524, Private J Thompson, number 241215, Corporal H Kneale, number 241249, all 1st/5th King’s Own.

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	Headquarters Mess Account 23 Jun 1917
	Notes about billets
	List of items to be issued to companies, 11 Jul 1917
	Note about billeting certificates Setques Pas De Calais, Jul 1917
	List of stores handed over to Area Commandant Setques, 18 Jul 1917
	Letters QM to Officer Commanding concerning: wooden bullets, (Dummy cartridges) and Divisional Signs (roses) for uniform Jul 1917
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: steel helmet covers, company tailors, Lewis gun limbers, special equipment, trench food heating, signalling lamps, Lewis guns, iron rations, boot repairs, Private Rawlinson, HQ Tailor, Brigade sports, Lewis Gun Magazine carriers, Sniper rifle, rifle grenades, Small Arms Ammunition.
	Letter QM to Camp Commandant ‘Red Rose Camp’ 23 Jun 1917 re Divisional Badges for Tunics
	Letter QM to Brigade concerning rations, clothing, anti-gas goggles, under clothing cleaning.
	Letters QM to 166 Brigade concerning, list of bombs, shovels and picks, RE material.
	Letter QM to Officer Commanding Corps, concerning Beef Dinner and Ham Sandwiches

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	Headquarter Mess Accounts 5 Aug 1917
	Letters QM to Officer Commanding concerning rations, tommy lighters, chocolate and cigarettes
	Letter QM to Major Milnes concerning, blankets, boots, chocolate, cigarettes for men, rations, tommy lighters, and 400 pairs of Roses through canteen.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning rations, tommy lighters, meat and vegetables, jam, loss of ten additional large wire cutters, bombs and ammunition drawn 12 Aug 1917 and Special Care of new pattern ground sheets
	Letters QM to Harriss concerning water cart, bombs, timber for crosses, Times newspaper and soap
	Letter QM to Officer Commanding A Company, re water and water bottles
	Letter QM to Commander Royal Engineers, 55th Division, concerning the issue of nails.

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	List of tools issued 3 Sep 1917 including shovels and picks, grenades
	Arrangements for 15 Sep 1917, transport, cooker, cyclists etc
	Letters QM to Adjutant, concerning telephone sets, pierrot performance, 26 Aug 1917, Lewis Gun lost indent, receipts for roses and brigade sports, box respirators, area cleaning, cookers, tools, latrines, wash benches, biscuit tins, tommy cookers (solidified spirit) kettles, Record of killed and wounded, 15 Sep 1917, Anti-aircraft Lewis gun sight.
	Letters QM to Transport Officer, concerning cookers, mess carts, coal, wood, nose bags, chains, collar, dandy brushes, saddle blankets and water carts
	Letter QM to Adjutant, 1st/5th South Lancashire Regiment regarding lost bicycle, 4 Sep 1917
	Letter QM to Officer Commanding C Company re complaint about owner of billet regarding damages, 9 Sep 1917
	Letter QM to All Company Quartermaster Sergeants regarding footballs and surplus stores, and cigarette, beer and tobacco issue to troops.
	Letters QM to Company Commanders regarding company tailors assisting Private Rawlinson with rose patches and steel helmet covers, Aug 1917, and arrangements for Concert Party
	Letter QM to 166 Brigade concerning Blank Cartridges for training.
	Letter QM to OC 13 Coy regarding Lamps for Concert, 7 Sep 1917

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	Headquarters Mess Accounts
	Rations for Trenches 1 Oct 1917
	Details Orders
	Notes 30 Sep 1917 regarding cookers, dripping, pioneers, letter box, blankets, roses, Christmas cards, fuel and sand bags.
	Canteen stocks Oct 1917
	Letters QM to Officer Commanding concerning rations, position of new camp, rations, blankets, rum, Lewis Gun slings, baths, field cashier, green canvas.
	Letters QM to Major Milnes concerning rations and alcohol for mess.
	Letter QM to Transport Officer concerning list of stores
	Letter QM to Adjutant concerning Lance corporal Blair, cookers, newspapers, Lewis gun sights, carriers and pouches, pack animals, shaken men and damaged bicycles, 17 Sep 1917, painter, potted meat, candles, mail and newspapers. Names for battalion roll of honour, wash benches, corrugated sheets, creosol and sanitary paper
	Letter QM to Medical Officer concerning Mess Costs.
	Letter QM to Padre concerning Hymn books
	Letter QM to Corps Royal Engineers requesting wood for crosses, 16 Sep 1917
	Letter QM to Sergeant Barnett, concerning rations and meals 17 Sep 1917
	Letter QM to Sergeant Haslam, concerning rum
	Letter QM to Sergeant Barrow, concerning primus stove
	Letter QM to Officer in charge Mill Dressing Station, concerning Castor oil for diarrhoea “I do not know of an MO who is not fully occupied.”

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	Canteen stock list, Oct 1917
	Letters QM to Officer Commanding concerning, Lewis Gun slings and Notice Boards.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: petrol tins, ‘High St. and George St’ locations, personnel to accompany stores moves, Operation Orders, Rum Jars, fire orders, latrine buckets, bacon, soup, rum bottles, jerkins (leather), tommy cookers, latrine paper, fuel issues, and paraffin, socks, cardigans, ammo re-supply, issue of whale oil, Lewis Gun anti-aircraft sight, return of empty tins, beer, issue of Whale Oil, rubber patrol suits, dubbin and note about “two steel helmet covers are sent for the two American officers, Nov 1917”
	Letter QM to Baths concerning Private A Smith
	Letter QM to Captain Deed, concerning socks, latrine buckets, petrol tins, candles.
	Letter QM to OC C Company, concerning candles.
	Letter QM to Major Davis, Balloon Section, Royal Flying Corps, re Fire Buckets
	Letter QM to Staff Sergeant Smith concerning the issue of Lime Juice, Nov 1917
	Letter QM to Private Rawlinson concerning the canteen

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	Letters QM to Medical Officer concerning baths, mess lists and accounts.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning, gum boots, underclothing, candles, helmet covers and badges, Private A Shelly, number 28071 having scabies, sent to hospital, solidified alcohol, rum, water, dummy grenades, box respirator containers, socks, (Lumberman’s short and long), A Company men “taking in their trousers contrary to orders” and names of signallers to transport lines.
	Letter QM to BTO 166 Brigade, concerning, extension to officers mess
	Letter QM to SO 166 Brigade, concerning men rejoining the battalion from 178 Tunnelling company
	Letter QM to SSO 55 Division, concerning men rejoining the battalion from 178 Tunnelling company
	Letter RQMS Grindrod concerning stores and motor lorries

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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15 Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 20 Nov 1917
Notes ‘In case of an advance the following arrangements will come into force’ page 1 of 2
Covering: Dumps, Dump Wardens, Shoemakers, Armourer, Cooks, Post Orderly, Orderly Room and Pioneers.

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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 15 Nov 1917 to 5 Dec 1917. Book Number 12 At page dated 20 Nov 1917
Notes ‘In case of an advance the following arrangements will come into force’ page 2 of 2
Covering: Surplus kits, stores, officers’ valise, other stores, Lewis Gun stores.

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	Bathing arrangements at Bomy, 31 Dec 1917
	Letter QM to Sergeant Brockbank concerning stationery requirements
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning rum, Amiens, lost rifle of Lance corporal Banks, bricks, corrugated iron and timber for tables, officers billeting, chevrons for service overseas (3 Jan1918), detailing of QM’s staff for work, CQMS A Wilson to act as RQMS, empty tins and cases disposal, billets, barbers and sanitary men and latrines.
	Letter QM to Staff Captain, 166 Brigade, concerning Christmas cards.
	Letters QM to Company Commanders concerning lighting in billets and straw for billets, 30 Dec 1917
	Letter QM to SO 166 Brigade, concerning fuel
	Letter QM to SSO 55 Division, concerning fuel

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	Notes of Efficiency Economy Competition (Details and rules of scheme)
	Transport Details
	Letters from QM to Adjutant concerning: Private J Horan, number 35808 as shoemaker, straw for billets, passes to St. Omer for Private G Whiteside, number 240831, and Private R Bell, number 241639, reduced scales of rations, clipping the legs of Peggy, the adjutant’s horse, against orders, loan of the tug-of-war rope, Lewis Gun anti-aircraft sight, rum, band – instruments of the 7th Battalion’s band to come to the 1st/5th Battalion, promotion of Private Crofthall, water duties man, and King’s Own Pamphlets, publishers cannot supply more.
	Letters from QM to Company Commanders concerning: dirty drawers and billeting details
	Letter from QM to Corporal Parkinson concerning concert party
	Letter from QM to Miss Bertha Walkden, Caton Road, Lancaster, 1 Feb 1918 as thank you for parcels received as gifts.
	Letter from QM to James Hawker & Sons, Plymouth for supply of Port, 17 Feb 1918
	Letter from QM to Gale and Polden Ltd, Aldershot, for writing pads and envelopes, 17 Feb 1918.

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	Boot repairs, by Company
	Canteen list, 29 Mar 1918
	Billets at Ferme du Roi
	Notes on rations, 27 Mar 1918
	Ammunition handed over to 1st/5th Lancashire Fusiliers
	Letters QM to Commanding Officer concerning powdered milk and rations carried on the man.
	Letters QM to Major Phillips, concerning: sandbags, rations, rum, ham and bacon, patrol suits, clothing, tea and sugar
	Letters QM to Adjutant, concerning: Private Ellis, downgraded but good barber, rum, warning order for emergency move on 14 Mar 198, Company Tailors making Steel Helmet covers, items lost due to shell fire, suggestion on economy, latrines, reinforcements, reduction of stores, officers kit and broken Lewis gun sight.
	Letters QM to Adjutant, concerning Queen Alexandra’s Field Force Fund, Lancashire County Comforts Fund, Readers of the Manchester Guardian and list of contents of parcels.
	Letters QM to Town Major, Bethune, concerning, billeting certificates and stoves.
	Letter QM to 55th Division concerning damage to shoemaker’s kit (and wounding to shoemaker) by shell fire.
	Letter QM to OC A Company, concerning whitewash brush.
	Letter QM to BTO 166 Brigade, concerning grease boxes for wash benches.

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	Record of Band Music received 20 Apr 1918
	Notes on Rations 22 Apr 1918
	Transport 13 May 1918
	Letters QM to Commanding Officer concerning: supplies, ‘Bethune is empty’; mistake over rum by Lance Corporal Graham, and rations 3 May 1918
	Letters QM to Adjutant, concerning: reduction of kit and mess stores, Private Bradshaw not satisfactory in band, Private H Smith, number 26844, possibly becoming a joiner from 7th Battalion, equipment supplied to Private A Hawkes, number 13874, lost items – 12 pairs of running shoes, packs found on limber, band account, POW accounts and boot repair account. Socks, return of rum jars and tins, sand bags and rations.
	Letter QM to Turner regarding replacement bicycle
	Letter QM to RQMS concerning: baggage, loading and movement
	Letter QM to Adjutant 55 DRD Bn. Close arrest of Private A R Tuck, number 28404, property forwarded, 6 Apr 1918
	Letter QM to Movement Forwarding Office (MFO) re missing officers kit.

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At page dated 5 Mar 1918

Envelope address to Lance corporal W Hynett, number 15817, Military Foot Police, C/o APM Boulogne

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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5 Apr 1918 to 13 May 1918. Book Number 16 At page dated 5 Mar 1918
Letter dated 3 May 1918 from Quartermaster to Lance corporal W Hynett, number 15817, Military Foot Police, c/o APM Boulogne. Re gramophone which has arrived for Captain Hind, who has been missing since 9 Apr 1918.
Captain O G Hunt, 1st/5th King’s Own missing 9 Apr 1918, repatriated as prisoner of war 29 Nov 1918

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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 5 Apr 1918 to 13 May 1918. Book Number 16 At page dated 5 Mar 1918
Business card of ‘Maison Ono Succr. M Lebleu, 14 Rue Victor Hugo, Boulogne-sur-Mer. Selling pianos, phonographs, disques anglais et francais.

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Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 11 Apr to 18 Apr 1918. Book Number 16 A.

	Numbers of personnel in companies, Apr 1918
	Letters QM to Commanding Officer concerning: cigarettes, solidified alcohol, SOS Rockets, 14 Apr 1918.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning reinforcements, rations and officers kit.
	Letter QM to Staff Captain, 166 Brigade concerning Canteen Requirements
	Letter QM to Town Major, Rainbert, regarding billets and baths.

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	Nominal roll for overseas chevrons, recording numbers, rank, names, years and months of service (3 pages)
	List of bicycles by serial number and soldiers issued
	April Shoemaker account
	HQ Mess Account
	Rations for Reception Camp
	Letter QM to Commanding Officer concerning rations.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: meat and ration delivery, meat safes, Lewis gun damages, spare and magazines, Private J Newsham being suitable as a cook as he has bad feet and has been wounded, billets at Drouvin, cleaning up party, tobacco, cooks, condemned food, Jun 1918 (‘Hoddie’ M & V (meat and vegetable) made by Charles and Thomas Harris & Co. Ltd. Calne, Wiltshire, a firm which patented the method of curing bacon), underclothing, and home addresses of officers.
	Letters QM to OC Details, concerning patches, roses and tailors
	Letter QM to Transport Officer, concerning transport and rations to Waterloo Bridge
	Letter QM to ‘Mac’, dated 9 Jun 1918 “Dear Mac, Hearty congratulations on the 2nd Bar….’ Lieutenant Macdonald.
	Letter QM to Medical Officer concerning whitewash brushes
	Letter QM to Adjutant DPOP, concerning: fuel, Lewis gun, fat lighters etc
	Letter QM to DADOS 55th Division, concerning bicycles
	Letter QM to Officer Commanding B company, concerning complaints about beef.

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	HQ Mess Account
	Burial of Private Harold Watson, number 28077, 1st/5th King’s Own, killed 26 Jul 1198, buried in Houchin British Cemetery
	Letter QM to Sergeant Brockbank concerning soldiers at reception camp.
	Letters QM to Adjutant, concerning: dental treatment, petrol tins, Lewis Gun team our of line, band fund, reserve service dress clothing, revolvers and holsters to Lewis gun teams, monkey puzzle anti-aircraft mounting, cleanliness at camp.
	Letter QM to Major Marshall, concerning rations, fresh and tinned
	Letter QM to Medical Officer, concerning, Private Davies, being unwell, 16 Jul 1918.
	Letter QM to Lieutenant Macdonald MC, concerning his watch.

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	Mess Accounts, 21 Aug 1918
	Numbers of me at Houchin Camp
	Note about the Field General Court Martial of 2nd Lieutenant Howson, 19 Sep 1918
	Permission for Private N Cottam, number 263006, to have the Padre’s bicycle.
	Letter QM to Commanding Officer concerning Clothing
	Letters QM to Major C C Marshall concerning: candles, rations, sandbags, biscuit tins for boiled beef and bacon, rissoles instead of minced meat and bacon.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: rations, rum and lime juice, 2nd Lieutenant Tweedies claim, camp at Vaudricourt, ablution hut, cookhouses, huts, value of articles salvaged, loss of letters, registered postal packet, rifle grenades, Lieutenant Hart’s leave warrant, Mackintosh capes and Battalion butcher, Lance corporal Robinson.
	Letter QM to DADOS 55th Division concerning: deficiency returns, caps, jackets, trousers, puttees, mess tins, 5 Sep 1918
	Letter QM to OC A Company, concerning lime juice
	Letter QM to Medical Officer, concerning enamelled cups missing from water tester, water duty man to be billeted with stretcher bearers, 26 Aug 1918
	Letters QM to Band Sergeant Loftus, concerning buglers required for funerals 7 Aug 1918 and on 26 Aug 1918 two buglers required at Houchin Cemetery.
	Letter QM to Roman Catholic Chaplain, 164 Brigade, request to attend Houchin Cemetery.
	Letter QM to Sergeant Sykes, requesting limber and cart to collect 4 bodies for funeral.
	Letter QM to BTO requesting 100 ft of 4 by 2 timber for crosses.

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Document loosely inserted into Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Quartermaster’s Notes 6 Aug 1918 to 30 Sep 1918. Book Number 19 At page dated 24 Aug 1918
Movement Order, Army Form W 3039, dated 24 Aug 1918. For Captain and Quartermaster A Hodgkinson and Private R Blamire, 1st/5th King’s Own from St. Pol to Barlin.

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	Orders for 3 Oct 1918 – Baggage, stores, rations, postman and cyclists
	List of stores at Bethune to be sent by lorry
	Orders for ‘Bustle’ 16 Oct 1918
	List of Billets occupied by 1st/5th King’s Own in the town of Bethune, 12-15 Oct 1918 showing addresses: rue Buridan; rue Beranger; rue de Marais; Rue de la Porte Neuve; Place Du seu de Paume; Avenue Rouget de L’Isle
	Letters QM to Commanding Officer concerning: HQ Mess and Christmas cards from Gale and Polden.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: Acting RQMS Wilson on lelave, CQMS Herridge and Sergeant Harriot, biscuits, chloride of lime, cigarettes, iron rations, whisky, 600 clean changes of underwear, canteen supplies, notes in case of move forward and Christmas Cards, too late for proof, and cash with order from soldiers.
	Letters QM to RQMS concerning, roses, compass and magazines
	Letters QM to OC Baths, request for 450 pairs of socks
	Letter QM to Private Rawlinson concerning 18000 cigarettes for mess
	Letter QM to SO 166 Brigade about half full rum containers.

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	List of absentees from details parade, 20 Nov 1918
	List of stores at Bethune
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: leather jerkins, baggage, transport, cross country run on 19 Nov 1918, list of men wishing to take part in classes, rugby football players and building construction class.

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	List of special equipment at Bethune
	Letters about issued watches
	Move on 11 Dec 1918
	Requirements for crockery for officers mess if formed
	Billets at Brussels
	List of matters requiring immediate attention on arrival at Brussels including indent for material
	List of potatoes, 22-24 Dec 1918
	List of men entitled to 1914/15 Star (Quartermasters Staff) 17 in total
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: lost articles, request for special leave by Private Salmon, protractor for aeroplane photographs (issued 15 Jul 1917), Orilux lamps (issued 27 Jul 1917), educational courses, stores required from Brigade for latrines, wash benches, ovens, band shelter and incinerator, iron rations handed into stores and Long Service Quartermaster’s Staff (46 months service): Sergeant E V Sykes, number 240384, Private W J Parkinson, number 240065, and Lance corporal H Hodgson, number 240249. Mention of Military medal to Acting RQMS R H Kirkby, number 240026. Request to adjutant for understudies to apply for following posts, willing and able to stay longer in service: Sergeant Cook, postman, tailors, shoemakers, butcher, pioneers and cooks.
	Letter QM to Band Sergeant Loftus requesting list of instruments
	Letter QM to Sergeant Abbott, Lewis gun NCO, requesting stores check
	Letter QM to BTO concerning Christmas Cards
	Letter QM to Company Commanders asking for the quantities of material they could contribute towards a mess.
	Letter QM to OC D Company concerning roses.

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	Statement of expenditure, 5th Army Association Football Committee
	Notes about lighting in billets, fuel and consumption of gas in Sergeants Mess.
	Letters QM to Adjutant concerning: baths, pioneers, blankets, bill for broken window, outstanding sports kit.
	Letter QM to SO 166 Brigade concerning Straw
	Letter QM to OC C Company concerning deficiencies
	Letter QM to Corporal Graham, in charge of Cooks.

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Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One. Printed by J R Ltd. May 1916.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’

	List of officers and date they signed Army Form W 3225 for various articles of kit received on payment etc.
	Names and home addresses of officers
	Record of officer boot repairs
	List of footballers attached Feb and Mar 1919

Major Charles W Pulford, 159 Royal Field Artillery, 38 Winton Terrace, Shenheston, Glasgow
Lieutenant Eric Williams, 8th Machine Gun Corps
2nd Lieutenant J M Edwards, 159 Royal Field Artillery, 119 Turnpike Lane, Hornsey, London, N7.
2nd Lieutenant M Eastwood, x/31 MTM Battery, 40 Reginald Mount, Leeds.
Major W Bumphrey, 8th Machine Gun Corps, Breck Beck, Wallasey, Cheshire
Captain W J Backrath, 8th Machine Gun Corps, 2 Park Row, Hull.
Lieutenant W Chambers, 159 Royal Field Artillery, Rishton, near Blackburn
Lieutenant G Gorringe, 7th Northampton Regiment, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
2nd Lieutenant E V Loney, Royal Garrison Artillery, Rudyard, Nr Leek, Staffordshire.

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Sep – Oct 1916
Letter QM to Commanding Officer concerning wire cutters etc provided to officers, 20 Oct 1917

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Feb 1918
Packing Note Army Form G 1028, for Compass, dated 20 mar 1918

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Nov 1918
Receipt for Revolver and Rod received from CQMS D Company, 29 Aug 1917, 2nd Lieutenant D R Tweedie.

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
Typed list of 5th King’s Own officers home addresses

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
Handwritten receipt for binoculars, 1 Nov 1917

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
Extract from General Routine Orders dated 29 May 1917, ‘Number 2358 Repairs to Officers’ Boots’

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
List HQ Officers Boot Repairs Account Ending 28 Feb 1918

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
List Transport Officers Boot Repairs Account Ending 28 Feb 1918

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
Inside cover
Receipt for valise, trench boots and coat (pea jacket) dated 23 Mar 1917

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jun 1918
Receipt for money received from Captain Hodgkinson for boot repairs for Jun and Jul 1918, dated 9 Aug 1918

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jul 1918
Receipt for 43 francs for Boot repairs, Aug 1918

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Dec 1918
Receipt for boot repairs to Quartermaster, dated 15 Feb 1919

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Dec 1918
Record of Officers Boot Repairs, Jan 1919 and arrears

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Feb 1919
Record of Officers Boot Repairs, Feb 1919 and arrears

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Feb 1919
Receipt for Boot Repairs to Quartermaster, 2 May 1919

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jul 1919Officers Boot repairs, Apr to Jun 1919, dated 30 Jul 1919

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jul 1919
Officers Boot repairs, Jun and Jul 1919, dated 29 Aug 1919

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Document loosely inserted into Field Service Message Book (Army Book 153) used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Written on cover ‘Officers Kit on Payment’
At page dated Jul 1919
Note showing stock of soles, heels, heel plates, sole plates and contents of bag with Private Holden,

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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Brigade Quartermaster Notes and Correspondence 8 Feb 1917 to 27 Nov 1917
Hodgkinson had a temporary appointment as Brigade Quartermaster and his notes and letters include:

	Fire precautions
	scrap iron
	Sanitary officers inspection, resulting in comments on removal of rubbish, removal of night urinal near cookhouse, scrap iron, improvements, grease traps etc.
	Units included: 166 Machine Gun Company (unsafe fire places and braziers, general tidiness), 166 Brigade Transport Lines, (fire buckets, latrine seats and stores hut to be kept clean), 1st/5th North Lancashire Regiment, 1st/5th South Lancashire Regiment, 1st/10th Liverpool Scottish.
	Letter QM to Staff Captain 166 Brigade concerning the repair of the general’s boots.
	Points from Visit of DAAQMG VIII Corps, 23 Mar 1917: inspection of rifles; butchers tables; hedges and fences to be kept clear of tins; duckboards; cooking utensils to be clean; the quartermaster must see that faeces and urine are properly disposed of; latrine buckets, seats and paper; meat safes; biscuit ration; mess tins inspected etc.

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Correspondence Book (Field Service) Army Book 152 used by Captain Hodgkinson, Quartermaster, 1st/5th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, World War One.
Correspondence re Claims, Brussels. 4 Apr 1919 to 22 May 1919

	Billeting certificates
	Settlement of claims
	Payment for wall paper etc