The Lead-swinger: The Bivouac Journal of the 1/3 West Riding Field Ambulance

The Lead-Swinger: The Bivouac Journal of the 1/3 West Riding Field Ambulance Vol. 1 Sep-Dec 1915, comprising six numbers and a supplement, separately paginated [214pp].

According to the Preface ' The original copies of this trench journal were published in manuscript... during the months of September to December, 1915, on the Western Front of the War. The articles were written and the sketches drawn in the trenches, the dressing station or the field hospital.'

Includes list of names of editorial committee and contributors, with their noms de plume.

Includes articles, poems, jokes, sketches.

This material comprises an original printed copy of this volume, formerly the property of Walter Terry (1896-1923), and a second file containing photocopies of another copy of this volume held at Dewsbury Library. A group photograph including Walter Terry, on which he has been marked by an asterisk, accompanies the printed volume.

At Wellcome Collection:

In the Archives and Manuscripts department: there are similar items in the RAMC Muniment Collection (RAMC).

In the Library's collections of published material, there are other later copies of The Lead-Swinger, from 1916 onward (Collection: Request / serials; Shelfmark: W1).

In other repositories:

Copies of the journal can also be found at the Army Medical Services Museum; in the War Reserve Collection at Cambridge University Library (3 vols, 4 Sept 1915 – 1 Mar 1919); and in the British Library.