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First World War (1914-1918).

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Subject Source: Ukat

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Diary of Daniel Murray Smillie, officer in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during WW1.

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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.