| Description | Fifteen letters, fourteen memos, five telegraphs (either signal message forms or typed copies with distribution list attached) sent between the War Office, 146th Brigade H.Q., Northern Command and the Hallamshire Battalion at Endcliffe Hall. Subjects include: programme for first twenty-eight days of mobilisation, with the number of hours to be spent on each training activity; notice of annexure of Nether Green Council School and Broomhill Council School for billeting; movements of key party; authorisation for bank account to be opened for supply of funds to Territorial unit on embodiment; orders for individuals to report for duty; enquiry regarding families remaining in married quarters if Battalion leave Endcliffe Hall and if the caretaker's wife can remain; supply of identity disks; amendment to D.L.R.S. timetable; training programme; sleeping out passes; the use of soldiers as agricultural labourers to bring in the harvest; movements of units or formations to be treated as secret; lighting restrictions and blackout material; supply of fuel to the caretaker's wife at Endcliffe Hall; also, three pages of receipts for soldiers' documents from I.T.C. at the Depot, Pontefract, with names and Army numbers. |