‘This Honourable Obligation’: The King's National Roll Scheme for Disabled Ex-Servicemen 1915–1944

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• “The King's Roll: Mr. Shaw's View.” British Legion Journal 2, no. 7 (January 1923): 189.
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• “The King's Roll: Is Compulsion Feasible?” British Legion Journal 2, no. 9 (March 1923): 216.
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• “What We Think.” The British Legion Journal 3, no. 11 (May 1924): 337.
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Unpublished Material

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• Latcham, A.P. “Journey's End: Ex-Servicemen and the State During and After the Great War.” Ph.D. diss., Oxford University, 1997.
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• Mitchell, R. “What Has Been Done for the Training of our Disabled Soldiers and Sailors.” Paper presented at the Inter-Allied Conference for the Care and Treatment of Disabled Soldiers and Sailors, London, May 1918.
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Public Documents

Leeds University Library

• United Kingdom. Report of the Committee Appointed by the Local Government Board Upon the Provision of Employment for Sailors and Soldiers Disabled in the War, Cd. 7915. 1915.
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• U.K. Parliament. Employment and Maintenance of Disabled Ex-Servicemen [Bill 191] (1923).
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• United Kingdom. Report of the Ministry of Labour for the Years 1923 and 1924, Cmd. 2481 (1925).
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• United Kingdom. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 5th ser., vol. 255 (1931).
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• United Kingdom. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 5th ser., vol. 264 (1932).
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• United Kingdom. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 5th ser., vol. 276 (1933).
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• United Kingdom. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 5th ser., vol. 278 (1933).
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• United Kingdom. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 5th ser., vol. 310 (1933).
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• United Kingdom. Ministry of Labour Report for the Year 1934, Cmd. 4861 (1935).
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• United Kingdom. Ministry of Labour Report for the Year 1935. Cmd. 5145 (1936).
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• United Kingdom. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 5th ser., vol. 382 (1944–1945).
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• PRO, CAB 24/8 GT 261, Ministry of Pensions Report for the Period of the 17th of March to the 23rd of March, 1917.
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• PRO CAB 24/110 C.P. 1794, Ministry of Labour Report for the Week of the 21st of August, 1920.
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• PRO CAB 24/114 C.P. 2092, Ministry of Labour Report for the Week of the 13th of November, 1920.
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