| Title |
The Papers of Jack Oughtred |
| Reference |
GBR/0014/OTRD |
| Creator |
Oughtred, John Alwyn, 1894-1958, Captain |
| Covering Dates |
1914–1923 |
| Extent and Medium |
5 archive boxes |
| Repository |
Churchill Archives Centre |
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| Content and context |
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John Alwyn Oughtred was born in 1894. He was educated at Hymers College, Hull, and Newton College, Newton Abbot. He married Phyllis Bentham (died 1981), 1919, with whom he had one son. He worked in the London Joint Stock Bank Ltd, Hull. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the East Yorkshire Regiment, 1915. He fought on the Western Front, 1916-18, and was awarded the Military Cross, 1917. He was promoted Lieutenant, 1916, and Captain, 1917. After the war, he joined the Bentham family business, William Jackson and Son Ltd, a firm of Hull food manufacturers and retailers, becoming managing director in 1942. He died in 1958.
Papers mainly comprising letters to his fiancée, Phyllis Bentham
The papers were loaned to Churchill Archives Centre by Christopher Oughtred, 1999.
The letters are arranged in chronological order.
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Access and Use
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The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.
Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.
Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Jack Oughtred, OTRD
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| Further information |
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The letters have been published in Alan Wilkinson (ed), "Destiny. The War Letters of Captain Jack Oughtred M.C. 1915-18" (1996).
Artefacts enclosed with Jack Oughtred's letters have been retained by the Oughtred family.
Copies of the catalogue are available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, the National Register of Archives, London, and on the Janus website http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk.
This collection level description was prepared by Sophie Bridges, April 2004. Information was obtained from Alan Wilkinson (ed), "Destiny. The War Letters of Captain Jack Oughtred M.C. 1915-18" (1996).
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| Index Terms |
| Belgium |
| First World War (1914-1918) |
| France |
| Oughtred, John Alwyn (1894-1958) Captain |
| Oughtred, Phyllis (d 1981) née Bentham |
| Churchill/OTRD contains: |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written on holiday, 1914, and from Benton Camp and N. Moor Camp, near Newcastle, and Lyddon Hall, Leeds, 1914-15. With a letter from Phyllis, 1 August 1914, and postcards.
25 items. |
9 April 1914–2 September 1915 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from Benton Camp, near Newcastle, and Dalton Holme, near Beveley. With a Christmas card.
10 items. |
15 September 1915–25 December 1915 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Ypres area. With a postcard and a receipt from William Jackson and Son Ltd, Hull, 22 January 1916.
43 items. |
9 January 1916–30 March 1916 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Ypres area. With a subscription reminder and copy of the rules of Hessle Golf Club, April 1916; a letter from Elizabeth Jackson (Phyllis' aunt), 23 April 1916; and a notice about expiry of driver's licence, 6 July 1916.
41 items. |
3 April 1916–29 July 1916 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme area. With postcards and letters from various members of the Bentham family; two notes from a prisoners of war in Germany thanking Phyllis for food parcels, 20-24 August 1916; a concert programme; and two photographs of a party of four people playing cards, including Phyllis.
42 items. |
1 August 1916–30 October 1916 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme area. With a note from the Naval Hospital, Hull, where Phyllis was working as a nurse, 16 November 1916.
16 items. |
3 November 1916–16 December 1916 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from Scotton Camp, near Catterick, during a period in hospital with trench fever, and the Western Front, Arras area. With literature about War Loans, January 1917.
30 items. |
27 February 1917–30 April 1917 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Arras area. With a photograph of Phyllis and a photograph of Jack.
18 items. |
2 May 1917–31 May 1917 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Arras area.
21 items. |
1 June 1917–27 June 1917 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Arras area.
18 items. |
1 July 1917–31 July 1917 |
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1/11
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Arras area, including a period in hospital with trench fever.
15 items. |
3 August 1917–29 August 1917 |
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1/12
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Arras and Ypres areas, and England during a period of home leave. With postcards.
26 items. |
2 September 1917–31 October 1917 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Ypres and Arras areas. With a signed menu and programme, 24 November 1917, and a card congratulating Jack on his bravery at the Battle of Broodseinde, 4-6 October 1917, for which he received the Military Cross.
23 items. |
1 November 1917–30 November 1917 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme area. With blank postcards; Christmas cards; a programme, 27 December 1917; a calender, July 1917; a seating plan of the Grand Theatre and Opera House, Hull; and Phyllis' certificate of enrolment as a nursing sister in the V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachments), 1 November 1916.
36 items. |
2 December 1917–31 December 1917 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme area, including a training course at the Lewis Gun School, Le Touquet. With a programme for a revue called "Arf A Mo".
25 items. |
2 January 1918–30 January 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme area.
20 items. |
1 February 1918–28 February 1918 |
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1/17
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme area.
11 items. |
1 March 1918–14 March 1918 |
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1/18
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme and Ypres areas, including a period in hospital in Boulogne following a gas attack.
15 items. |
4 April 1918–29 April 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from hospital in Boulogne and the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich.
5 items. |
4 May 1918–16 May 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from No. 1 School of Instruction, Brocton Camp, Staffordshire. With a letter from Phyllis, 19 June 1918.
13 items. |
3 June 1918–30 June 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from No. 1 School of Instruction, Brocton Camp, Staffordshire.
14 items. |
1 July 1918–24 July 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme area.
21 items. |
6 August 1918–31 August 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Somme area.
22 items. |
3 September 1918–30 September 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Cambrai area.
27 items. |
3 October 1918–31 October 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Maubeuge area, with descriptions of the armistice and preparations to return home.
23 items. |
1 November 1918–30 November 1918 |
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Letters to Phyllis Bentham. Written from the Western Front, Maubeuge area, and en route home. With a letter from Phyllis Bentham, 16 December 1918, and combined leave and railway tickets.
20 items. |
1 December 1918–23 December 1918 |
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Letters from Jack Oughtred's mother and brother, Edgar, 1918-23 (4). With envelopes addressed to Jack Oughtred from Phyllis Bentham, 1918.
1 file. |
1918–1923 |
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Letters of congratulation on the award of the Military Cross, 1917. With miscellaneous letters from family and members of the East Yorkshire Regiment, 1918-19, a demobilisation order, 1919, and trench standing orders.
1 file. |
1917–1919 |
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