Authorized Guide to the Tower of London by Rev. W. J. Loftie

front of 2024.1007.183

front of 2024.1007.183

Name/Title

Authorized Guide to the Tower of London by Rev. W. J. Loftie

Entry/Object ID

2024.1007.183

Description

Book guide to the Tower of London written and revised by multiple authors and published in 1918. Covere torn in top right, with inside pages also degraded. Back cover missing.

Context

Battleship Texas arrived in Scapa Flow on February 11, 1918, where she joined the British Grand Fleet. She patrolled the North Sea throughout 1918, escorted the German High Seas Fleet to surrender on November 21, and departed the Grand Fleet on December 1, 1918. John Lamson was a MM1c on Battleship Texas from May 1917 to June 1919. Throughout his time on Texas, he sent a letter to his family at least once a week, often more. Longer stretches of absence are explained either by movement across the Atlantic, or with the Grand Fleet. Sailors and Marines often bought things from the cities they made port in, regardless of wartime or peacetime.

Collection

Collection (John F. Lamson), Historical Collections

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Book Details

Date Published

circa 1918