Letters By Author

Biography

Matthew Augustine Warren (1893 - 1938)

Date of letters

8 July 1915 - 21 February 1919

Number of letters

12

Regiments

14th Royal Scots 30 June 1915 - December 1915
16th Royal Scots March 1916 - 1919
3rd Royal Scots 1919

Rank

Second Lieutenant

Regimental number
Unknown

Matthew Warren was born on 4 July 1893 in Belfast to Jane Kerr and William Warren, a pawn office clerk. He began work in Ballymacarrett Branch Library as an Assistant Librarian on 28 November 1906. At this time his home address was given as River Terrace which is close to the Ormeau Road. Warren joined the Queen’s University Belfast O.T.C. (Officers’ Training Corps) in 1913 and obtained a commission as Second Lieutenant to join the 14th Royal Scots on 30 June 1915.

It is clear that some of Warren’s correspondence is missing. The first letter included in this collection is dated from July 1915 but it refers to a previous (missing) letter. There is a gap in his collection between 25 March 1916 and 12 February 1919. During this period he was wounded by sharpnel in March 1916. He was later reported missing in May 1917, this is then changed to wounded and Prisoner of War at Cassel.

Warren returned to work in April 1919, his home address was given as 23 Lavinia Street but he resigned in September of the same year. He married Jeanette Darroch in Glasgow in 1920.

Warren died of shock in 1938 following an operation to remove a piece of shell from his right lung, an injury he sustained during the First World War.

Author Letters

For Author Matthew Warren we have found 14 correspondence(s).


Reference	Date of Letter	Type	Summary	View Letter
WAR-001	08 July 1915	Letter	Warren to Elliott. Glasgow. Routine.	View
WAR-002	10 August 1915	Letter	Warren to Goldsbrough. Hawick, Scotland. Officers, camp, Simpson.	View
WAR-003	20 December 1915	Letter	Warren to Elliott. Catterick, Yorkshire. Christmas wishes.	View
WAR-004	22 December 1915	Letter	Elliott to Warren. Simpson, Coulson, Christmas wishes.	View
WAR-005	20 March 1916	Letter	Warren to Elliott. France. 16th Royal Scots, Sir George McCrae, officer receives military cross, meets Simpson.	View
WAR-006	25 March 1916	Letter	Elliott to Warren. Officer receives military cross, Simpson.	View
WAR-007	12 February 1919	Letter	Warren to Goldsbrough. Mullingar. Demobilisation, working in assistant adjutant's office.	View
WAR-008	13 February 1919	Letter	Goldsbrough to unknown. Employment on return to civilian life.	View
WAR-009	16 February 1919	Letter	Warren to Goldsbrough. Mullingar. Forms.	View
WAR-010	18 February 1919	Letter	Goldsbrough to Warren. Forms, demobilisation.	View
WAR-011	21 February 1919	Letter	Warren to Goldsbrough. Forms.	View
WAR-012	01 March 1919	Form	Returning Candidate Vacancy Form	View
WAR-013	01 January 1920	Photograph	Matthew Warren. Copyright retained by A. Warren	View
WAR-014	01 January 1920	Photograph	Matthew Warren and Jeanette Darroch wedding. Glasgow 1920. Copyright retained by A. Warren.	View