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Diary, 1828-1830, of Major Douglas Cunninghame Graham.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10702
Scope and Contents
Includes colour sketches and concerns hunting expeditions in India.
With a letter, 1839, of Graham from India to his sister, Mrs Anna Calderwood.
Dates:
1828-1839.
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
Papers of James Robertson, civil engineer, including other papers, chiefly correspondence, of members of his family.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10012/1-12
Scope and Contents
Correpondence, journals, and photographs of James Robertson, civil engineer, with other papers of members of his family. James Robertson worked on the construction of the Port Patrick Railway, Ayrshire, 1859-60, and then in India, particularly on the G I P Railway at Nagpore, Centra Provinces. He returned to Scotland in 1870 and became a partner in the Milnwood Iron Works, Motherwell.The correspondence, which forms the bulk of this collection, consists largely of letters written...
Dates:
1859-1890, undated.
Second World War diary of Lieutenant Walker, of the Royal Scots Regiment.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13462
Scope and Contents
Diary of Lieutenant Walker, of the Royal Scots Regiment, in India, 1940-1941. The diary records life in the army from recruitment and training at Aldershot, the convoy to Bombay, and life in India.
Dates:
1940-1941.