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Correspondence and papers concerning the wartime detentions and deportations of members of the Jannetta family, St Andrews.
File
Identifier: Acc.12029
Dates:
1939-1943.
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
Literary papers of Hugh Provan Crosbie.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12197
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, diaries, photographs and press cuttings concerning his service in World War II.
Dates:
1941-1991.
Papers of James Lauder Davidson.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13567
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises several manuscript and typescript diaries which illustrate James Lauder Davidson’s experiences during his time in Burma, before and after WWII, and his military involvement in the conflict. Of particular interest are the earlier and later diaries, as well as the diary charting his escape into China. The collection also includes two photographic albums. The first one (item 2 in the collection) includes original photographs taken by Davidson. Most of them include...
Dates:
1938-1947
Papers of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13593
Scope and Contents
Papers, c.1910-1970s, of Werner Bienert, migrant from Germany to Scotland.Werner Bienert was born in Thale Am Harz, Germany in1902 to a sawmill owner. His early life until 1922 was spent working in the timber trade in Germany and Holland before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland in 1924 on a year’s visa. There he met his future wife, Rose Tinney, with whom he had three children. They were married in 1925 before Bienert was forced to move back to Germany, settling in Hamburg. The...
Dates:
c.1903-1979
Records, war diaries and other papers concerning the Lothians and Border Horse in the 2nd World War.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11856
Scope and Contents
Includes post war papers, minute books and financial records of the Lothian and Border Horse Regimental Association and its predecessor body.
Dates:
circa 1926-1999.
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.
Typescripts of diaries and autobiographical pieces of C Meadmore.
File
Identifier: Acc.11911
Scope and Contents
Material concerns life in post-war Edinburgh and holidays in Scotland, and includes three letters of Miss Meadmore to her mother.
Dates:
1940-1949.
War diaries of Lt David Black Barclay, Royal Artillery, in North Africa and Italy.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12181
Scope and Contents
Accession includes:
1. sketchbook, 1943-1944,
2. an earlier volume of poetry written by Barclay,
3. Barlcay`s wartime record kept by his wife, Annie.
Dates:
1943-1948.