Showing Browse Resources: 1 - 20 of 20
"An Account of the Action off the Little Fisher Bank [the Battle of Jutland] May 31st 1916" by the Reverend R H Malden, Chaplain, Royal Navy on HMS Valiant.
File
Identifier: Acc.11023
Scope and Contents
Includes related letter to Mrs Simpson, Abbotsknowe, Peebles, and a privately printed memoir of "The Battle of Jutland" (Leeds, 1918).
Dates:
circa 1918.
Copies of letters of James Bannerman Lorimer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6592
Scope and Contents
Mostly written from the Western Front.
Dates:
1914-1917.
Copy of Orlo Williams, "The Evacuation of the Dardanelles".
File
Identifier: Acc.1700
Scope and Contents
Article published in the National Review, includes letter and marginalia of Major-General Granville-Egerton.
Dates:
circa 1946.
Correspondence and related papers of the De Pree and Haig families.
File
Identifier: Acc.12263
Dates:
circa 1915-1916.
Correspondence of Gertrude Susan Nicholson.
File
Identifier: Acc.11006
Scope and Contents
Concern panels for prisoners of war.
Dates:
1916-1917.
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
Diary of Daniel Murray Smillie, officer in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during WW1.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13748
Scope and Contents
Papers of Daniel Murray Smillie, written whilst serving as an officer with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during the First World War. The son of Robert Smillie, trade unionist and politician, Daniel Murray Smillie appears to have enlisted in 1915. The papers include a diary, 30 August to 17 November 1916, which gives an insight into the work of the RAVC at the veterinary hospital at Bulford, covering such subjects as the treatment of horses. More general themes are also covered...
Dates:
1916-1919.
Documents relating to the military tribunal of Alexander Frame Smillie, conscientious objector during WWI.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13747
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the military tribunal of Alexander Frame Smillie, and his imprisonment at Wormwood Scrubs as a conscientious objector during the First World War, 1918.The papers include letters and statements detailing the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Alexander (Alex) Smillie. Alexander was the son of Robert Smillie, trade unionist and politician who became President of the National Council Against Conscription when it was formed in 1915. A letter from Robert to Alexander...
Dates:
1918.
Letter of Private John Anderson, Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, to Miss Katharine Robertson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13553
Scope and Contents
Letter, February 1915, of Private John Anderson, `B` Company, 1st Queen`s Own Cameron Highlanders, describing experiences on the Western Front during the First World War.
The letter is addressed to Miss Katharine Robertson, Edinburgh, whose brother Lieutenant Lewis Robertson, also of the 1st Cameron Highlanders, died of his wounds in November 1914. Private Anderson was instructed to write the letter to Miss Robertson by Major Yeadon, commanding the Battalion.
Dates:
1915
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 and regarding Corporal James Birse, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13630
Scope and Contents
Letters of and regarding Corporal James Birse, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1916-1917.James Birse was born in Aberdeenshire in October 1884, and trained as a pharmacist working in both Aberdeen and Edinburgh prior to emigrating to Canada in 1904 where he continued in the same trade. After the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and Private Birse travelled to the UK for training in early 1916. The items consist of two...
Dates:
1916-1917
Letters of Lieutenant (Alexander) Nigel Trotter, 3rd Battalion Royal Scots.
File
Identifier: Acc.6614
Scope and Contents
Letters of Lieutenant Alexander Nigel Trotter, 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).The letters are mostly from Nigel, as he was known to his family, whilst serving in the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots. They are to his family, mostly his mother Mrs A.P. Trotter, and describe military training and the early weeks of the First World War. Also included are typescripts of letters to Trotter`s mother from his Captain and others describing his death, and two photographs...
Dates:
1912-1914.
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.
Papers concerning the military service of Chilton Lind Addison-Smith.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6030
Scope and Contents
Concerning military service while serving with the 17th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion, 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade and 2nd Battalion Sherwood Forresters, 71st Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force, France.
Dates:
1916-1917.
Papers of and concerning William Murray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.7323
Scope and Contents
Including photographs and copies of letters concerning Murray`s military service in the First World War.
The papers were received in three installments.
Dates:
1911-1977 and undated.
Papers of Chilton Lind Addison-Smith, concerning British Expeditionary Force records and instructions relating to prisoners of war, Abberville Area.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6031
Dates:
1917-1919.
Papers of David Kennedy-Fraser, psychologist.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13480
Scope and Contents
Letters and photographs, 1916-1921, of David Kennedy-Fraser, psychologist.Born in Edinburgh in 1888, David Kennedy-Fraser was a student of George Watson`s college before attending Edinburgh University, graduating with a BSc and an MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. He studied at the University of Leipzig and at Moray House in Edinburgh before transferring to Cornell University in 1913. During this period, Kennedy-Fraser`s interest in experimental psychology developed and...
Dates:
1916-1921.
Papers of Thomas Hannan of Maryhill, relating to his conscientious objection during the First World War, and subsequent imprisonment in Dartmoor.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13388
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to the conscientious objection of Thomas Hannan of Maryhill, Glasgow, 1916-1926. Included are papers relating to his tribunal hearings and subsequent imprisonment, including a letter written from HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, a letter detailing his removal to Dartmoor prison, programmes relating to concert productions by inmates at Dartmoor, postcards sent from the prison to Hannan’s family, and his military discharge certificate. Particularly poignant are the letters between...
Dates:
1916-1926.
Papers of Walter S Crow.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7164
Scope and Contents
Including account of 1918 war experiences, compiled in 1977 from original notebook carried in the field, which is also presented, together with a letter on the battle of Château-Thierry.
With photocopies of two letters, 1944, of W R Crow, and photocopies of unassociated essays.
Dates:
20th century.
Papers, photographs and medals of John Stewart Morrison and Angus Morrison.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14288/1-4
Dates:
Circa 1914-1922, 1941.