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Entries for 1915

There is material for January, April, July, August 1915:

3 January 1915: Ex-prime minister Asquith on the Yorkshireness of his then chief whip, Percy Illingworth (Bradford), who died this day of typhoid
13 April 1915: During the wartime Serbian typhus epidemic, Clifford Allbutt recalls the open-air treatment he used in the 1865-66 outbreak in Leeds
6 July 1915: The Tory MP for York joins in the persecution of the professor of German at Leeds University, A.W. Schüddekopf, who is sacked and dies of a stroke
20 August 1915: The final letter to his father of Private Charles Langrick, 1st/5th Bn., The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment