Programme for the Wounded Soldiers' Sports and Gymkhana, Harrogate, September 1916

Binding:	Softcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publication Year:	1916
Book ID:	003312
Catalogue(s):	History - Family and Institutional History, Geneaology ◇ War, Military History and Weapons

4pp, with colour illustration on front. Worn and toned at edges, some minor folds. The programme for a Sports and Gymkhana held in aid of the Wounded Soldiers' Entertainment and Tobacco Fund, under the Patronage of and in the presence of H I H the Grand Duchess George of Russia. It gives details of the organisers and events to be held (including a Hat Trimming Competition, a Blindfold Scissors Competition, Apple Snatching, a Needle Threading Race, a Bun and Ginger Beer Race etc). Prizes presented by H I H The Grand Duchess George of Russia. (The Grand Duchess, the daughter of George I of Greece and cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, took refuge in England during the first world war, living for a number of years near Harrogate).

Keywords:

yorkshire romanov grand duchess maria george gymkhana first world war soldiers wounded fund-raising harrogate war