Order of service
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
202 x 122 mm
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 40620.12
Summary
An 8-page preliminary pre-printed outline for an in memoriam order of service, amended and annotated in ink and pencil. The fornt cover reads: S Margarets Westminster / In Memorium / Brigadier General Walter Long D.S.O. C.M.G. / Born 26 July 1879 / Killed in action Sunday 28 Jan 1917. He was killed in Hebuterne, France.
Provenance
This memory/keepsake trunk was instigated by George Abraham Gibbs (1873-1931) at some point after the death of his first wife Victoria (Via) Florence de Burgh Gibbs (1880-1920) and before, or shortly after, he married his second wife, Ursula Lawley, in 1927. He filled it with items belonging to himself and Via, and presented it to their daughter, Doreen, who added further items to the trunk. Upon Doreen’s death in 2008, the trunk and its contents were inherited by Doreen’s daughter, Victoria Eyre.