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- 1937 - 1952 (Creation)
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1 album, photographic prints
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Laurie Gwatkin McAlpine came up to Jesus College in 1937 and gained a third class degree in Botany in 1940. After Cambridge, he joined the army as a gunner in the Royal Artillery. He was killed in action on 13 July 1944, aged 26, and is buried in the La Delivrande War Cemetery at Douvres, Normandy.
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Scrapbook, 'Undergraduate Life', Cambridge 1937 - 1940
The scrapbook contains printed ephemera and newspaper cuttings including profiles of Cambridge University dons, sporting events, rag days and theatre programmes, Cambridge University Union Society notices of debates and theatre programmes. Also included are McAlpine's preliminary and tripos examination papers, and several cuttings of topical discussions about Great Britain's position in respect of the Nazi threat and impending war. The contents of the album illustrate undergraduate life of the time, at the outbreak of the Second World War.
A loose letter to the Rev. R.G. McAlpine from Freddy Brittain regarding a memorial service for Jesuans lost at war, October 1952 is found in the first page.
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Cloth bound album 250 x 330 x 65mm with 'Cambridge 1937-1940' handwritten on front cover cloth, paper and photographs.
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No date, although the album contains material between 1937 and 1952.