Artefactual
Registration cards (courtesy of Newark & Sherwood District Council museums.)
Nottingham City Museums, Brewhouse Yard Museum
- Considerable amount of material relating to Albert Ball VC (medals, tunic, plaques, plane parts, a scrapbook of photographs, commemorative letters etc)
- Souvenirs (German belt buckle, ashtray made of mortar shell)
- Fragment of shrapnel dropped from a Zeppelin at Colwick in September 1916
- Tobacco tin issued to British troops at Christmas 1914
Bassetlaw Museum
See www.bassetlawmuseum.org.uk
Wide range of material, including:
- Lots of costumes – military (mainly Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry) and women’s and children’s.
- WW1 helmet
- Medals and identity discs
- Spurs and horseshoes
- Pay sheets/identity cards
Newark Museum
See www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk
- Certificate: to Harriett Ann Laughton dated 1919 ‘for help in Agriculture during war.(photographed) [1992.33g]
- Bugle and drum used in WW1 by Sherwood Foresters.
- Borough of Newark Peace Celebrations 1919 booklet (photographed).[ T3284 ]
- Diary of G Fletcher drummer Sherwood Foresters 1914-1919 [NEKMS 2002 72]
- Identity card 1915 Ethel Stephenson (photographed). [NEKMS 1998 34.1]
- Booklet Bosh and Boshe 1919 musical/satire and poetry [C16/374/89]