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55967: War Diary: Tuesday August 4th 1914

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Discusses German and French declarations of war / implications of total war / Sir Edward Grey's speech in Parliament / possible enlistment of untrained volunteers / Germany's declaration of war on Belgium / enlistment of acquaintances in the reserves and implications for their families.

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Creator

Brittain, Vera (1893-1970)

Date

4th August 1914

Date Created

04/08/1914

Spatial

Buxton, England

Source

Notebook

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Diary | Diary

Pages

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11

Number of Pages

12

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The digitised Vera Brittain material may be used for educational purposes only and remains the copyright at all times of the Literary Executors for the Vera Brittain Estate, 1970 and The Vera Brittain Fonds, McMaster University Library. In any distribution or display of the material this acknowledgment must be clearly indicated.

Collection ID

Vera Brittain Archive D3 | Vera Brittain Archive D3 | Vera Brittain Archive D3 | Vera Brittain Archive D3 | Vera Brittain Archive D3 | Vera Brittain Archive D3

Repository Name

McMaster University, Mills Memorial Library, The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections

Repository Address

1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L6, Canada

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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    The Vera Brittain Collection

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    First World War Poetry Digital ArchiveWorld War OneDiaries

    Licence

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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