November 1916 Receipt, New College Archives, Oxford

New College Servants in the 1914–18 War

Jennifer Thorp
Issue number
(2014): 05

New College continued to pay wages of College servants on active service during the Great War. 

Mrs Louisa Cox received the regular wages of her husband George, who had worked as a bed-maker at New College since 1887 before enlisting for four years’ war service in 1914.

New College Archives, Oxford