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Notebook containing a record of the campaigns of the 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards in the Crimea.
Item
Identifier: MS.9319
Scope and Contents
The contents are compiled from official and other documents, and consist of: rolls of service of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who went to the Crimea; rolls of promotions, honours, and awards;
detailed returns of the state and strength of the battalion, including medical reports; a journal of the campaigns and battles in which the battalion took part.
The notebook is illustrated with occasional sketches, ink and watercolour, and with two military poems.
Dates:
1854-1856.