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Arthur Cockerhill fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1798-1799, 1955-1982.

Reference:

R4805-0-X-E, MG31-D138

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102772

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Arthur Cockerhill fonds
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Fonds includes:

2 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1798-1799, 1955-1982.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

50 cm.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence, original, 1979-1982, 30 cm; research files concerning British and Australian boy Soldier units and apprentice ship programmes, original, 1798-1799, 1955-1981, 10 cm; photocopy, ca. 1979-1981, 10 cm.

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Cockerill, Arthur, 1929-

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Cockerill, Arthur, 1929- : Arthur W. Cockerhill was born at Blidworth, Nottinghamshire, 24 March 1929, the son of a serving soldier. He was educated at the Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover, the Army Technical College, Arborfield, and the School of Military Engineering, where he qualified in 1949. He was commissioned in the Corps of Royal Engineers, and served until 1951. Since immigrating to Canada in 1967, he has pursued careers in both engineering and letters. He began to write in 1960, and has published, inter alia, a biography, Sir Percy Sillitoe, (W.H. Allen & Co., 1975) and a history, Sons of the Brave: A History of Boy Soldiers, (Martin Secker & Warburg, 1982).
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Boys as soldiers - Great Britain, [19-] Duke of York's Royal Military School, [19-]

Boys as soldiers - Canada, [19-] Royal Hibernian Military School, [19-]

Boys as soldiers - Australia, [19-] Army Technical College, [19-]

Boys as soldiers - South Africa, [19-]

Boys as soldiers - New Zealand, [19-]

Authors, Candian, [19-]
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Private

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MG31-D138
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