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Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-5, of James Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma during the Second World War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13598
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1941, and photograph album, c.1942-1945, of James `Jimmy` Gordon, serving with the British Army in India, Egypt and Burma.James Gordon was born in 1916 in Turriff, Aberdeenshire. A gifted artist and art teacher, Gordon enlisted with the British Army during the Second World War. His journal begins on 10 November 1941, and records daily observations and his thoughts during his journey from the Clyde on board the troopship Aorangi. He describes Freetown, Sierra Leone, in...
Dates:
1941-1945
Photographs, 1917, of nursing staff and patients at 2nd Scottish General Hospital, Craigleith, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10189
Scope and Contents
Includes later photographs of views in Egypt and Palestine on a voyage in the eastern Mediterranean.
Dates:
1917 and undated.
Six albums of pen and watercolour sketches by H G M Kirby depicting a history of his sporting life and his friends.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12786
Scope and Contents
Scottish scenes set at Forsinard, Sutherland, the English at Bradwell Grove, Oxon, and London and Cambridge; with scenes also in France and Egypt.
Dates:
circa 1890-1919.