| Description | This collection comprises two copies of a typescript document, detailing the family history and then service of Second Lieutenant Owen Bradshaw of 12th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment in Egypt and defending the Suez Canal during the First World War. Also includes information on his career as a cartoonist, his time training with the Camouflage Development and Training Centre in Farnham, Surrey, and then later his time as the Camouflage Instructor for the 67th West Riding (Sheffield) Battalion Home Guard. This document was compiled by Stephen Johnson (2021).
Owen Bradshaw, son of Samuel Bradshaw, manager of the File Department at Thomas Turner and Co. and his wife Clara (nee Hunt), was born in Sheffield on 15 July 1890. He enlisted with the 12th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment aged 25 in September 1914, and served in Eygpt and was involved in defending the Suez Canal. During the Second World War he volunteered as the Camouflage Instructor for the 67th West Riding (Sheffield) Battalion Home Guard. |