Western Front (1914-1918).
Subject
Subject Source: Ukat
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
87 aerial photographs of places near the Western Front, taken from a German aircraft.
File
Identifier: Acc.9511
Dates:
1917-1918.
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13710
Scope and Contents
Account of the experiences of Alpin MacGregor, 1st Gordon Highlanders, as a Prisoner of War, 1918, and notes on interviews conducted by his father, Rev Duncan MacGregor, with soldiers repatriated to Holland, early 1918.Alpin MacGregor was a Sergeant Major in the 1st Gordon Highlanders. In the regular army when the First World War broke out, MacGregor`s was amongst the first battalions to form the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. In the retreat following the battle at...
Dates:
1918
Copies of letters of James Bannerman Lorimer.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6592
Scope and Contents
Mostly written from the Western Front.
Dates:
1914-1917.
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
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 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.