Without question the Trust’s most important acquisition this month is a silver Princess Christian’s Army Nursing Service Reserve badge (No. 211) worn by Sister Theodosia Agnes Cobbold during service in the Boer War. She is #1893 on the web family tree.
Other acquisitions include:
- The Complete George Cross by Kevin Brazier
- Swefling Rebecca Cobbold, a novel by Barbara Grantham Hicks
- Twenty-Five Shades of Graves by Jeremy Cobbold
- An article from the Intellectual Observer 1863 on The Portuguese Man-of-War by H Noel Humphreys
- Three articles from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 1862 & 1865 on Gyrodactylus Elegans, Entozoa and Coenurus by T Spencer Cobbold (#174).
- A large package of miscellaneous Tolly Cobbold ephemera including an album of advertisements.
The Trust is grateful for help given, often with family tree information, by (in no particular order):
Geoffrey Elborn, Hamish Thoms, Derek Wilson, Ruth Richardson, Geoffrey Buchler, Clare O’Keefe, Carolyn Anthony, Simon Watson and Brian Graham. Please accept apologies for anyone omitted inadvertently.