| Description | Envelope 1: two typescript lists of places served in and dates of occupations held; two pages of notes on service history; list of addressed for all places stationed; 'Iceland's Song' by Grimm Thomsen; notes on Iceland; account of a lorry journey from Cantley Park to York; booklet of 'The Suppressed Speech' by Lt. Col. Arthur Osburn. Six photocopied pages with thirteen drawings of ships, houses and landscapes in Iceland, 1940; nineteen poems (typescript and presscuttings); two pages of architectural drawings. Three movement passes; ship ticket; mess ticket; leaflet showing markings of aircraft; cash receipt; proxy voting paper; National Health Insurance leaflet for women who marry, with note from insurance company; prizewinner certificate; photograph of Vickers; photograph of a crashed German plane being moved by a crane; two postcards of Husthwaite. Letter to Vickers from his wife Ruby; three airgraphs to Vickers; novelty Christmas card in shape of a train ticket from Fortune's Railway; hand-drawn Christmas card to Baby; 21st birthday card from Eddie.
Envelope 2: three bomb maps of Sheffield from newspapers; six presscuttings; temperance pledge book; New Testament; notebook of descriptions of buildings and walks around Derbyshire; notebook on German grammar; diary of Hallamshire Battalion's Norwegian campaign, 7 Apr 1940-11 May 1940; journal written to his wife describing journeys, towns, architecture, sights and recreational activities, 27 Oct 1939-26 Feb 1945; two exercise books used for learning German.
Scrapbook of material mostly collected in Norway and Iceland, 1940-1942: transcript of personal diary of Norwegian campaign; presscuttings; postcards; drawings of Iceland by Vickers; programmes; numerous poems written by Vickers; Christmas cards; tickets; instructions for travelling in snow, map reading, mountain craft; Winter Warfare School training material (1940-1985, c.160 pieces).
Scrapbook of material mostly collected in North Africa, 1943-1944, and Italy and Austria, 1944-1945: tickets; the first british newspaper in Tunisia; programmes; songs composed by Vickers; the Machine Gun Gazette which was written and published by Vickers; bank notes; tourist maps of Rome; programmes for professional performances; printed pictures of Roman buildings; hotel brochures and other tourist information on Udine, Venice, Milan, Klagenfurt and Velden (1943-1946, c.130 pieces).
Two postcard albums, each containing c.110 postcards of Italy. Postcard album containing c.110 postcards of Italy, Austria, Iceland, Husthwaite in Yorkshire and Hawick in Scotland. |