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Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13690
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1914-1921Letters and postcards of and addressed to Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1914-1921. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were...
Dates:
1914-1921
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families, relating to the First World War and life in Australia.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13540
Scope and Contents
Letters and other papers, 1887-1920, of the Reid and King families. The papers consist of an Army pay book, 1887-1893, of Private James Reid, 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; a letter from Andrew Reid to his parents, 16 December [1916], describing his experiences on the Somme front during the First World War; 2 letters, 6 January 1918, of Mary King (nee Reid) to her mother, and to her sister, sent from New South Wales, Australia; a photograph of Mary with her husband, Andrew...
Dates:
1887-1920
Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13711
Scope and Contents
Letters of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War, c.1915-1916.Letters and postcards of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders, and part of the British Expeditionary Force, c.1915-1916. Riddell, a machine gunner (number 9969), was captured and made a prisoner of war in 1914, during the early weeks of the war. He was captured at the Battle of Bertry, at which time around 500 Gordon Highlanders were taken prisoner. ...
Dates:
1915-1916.