Inventory description: Correspondence of Mabel Broughton Holman, from her home in Muswell Hill, London, to William Lionel Gray, 1908-1919, during his training with the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) as a Territorial unit, and later during his mobilisation to Egypt and the Dardanelles, and later transfer to the Arab Bureau, Cairo, covering her experience of the pre-war and war periods in London as a woman working for her uncle’s office, E L Bentley’s Complete Phrase Code, and in particular the effect of her brother’s death in action with the Royal Flying Corps, the strain of air raids and rations, and the effort to maintain their relationship.