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Diary of William Gavin.
File
Identifier: Acc.8658
Scope and Contents
Recording his campaigns in South Africa, South America, and the Peninsular War, with photocopy of printed transcript, 1921.
Dates:
1806-1815, 1921.
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
Journal of Sapper - Jack, of Blackhall, Midlothian.
Item
Identifier: Acc.3607
Scope and Contents
Describing service in the Royal Engineers in South Africa and German East Africa.
Dates:
1916-1917.
Journal, probably of C J Crawshaw, teacher at Lovedale Institution, South Africa.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7917
Dates:
1883-1887.
Papers of Andrew Brown.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8258
Scope and Contents
Comprising eight notebooks and one photocopied notebook.
Including diary, 1899, of the Boer War, journal, 1905, of voyage from Johannesburg to Europe, via Egypt, Palestine and Greece, and poetry and reflections.
Dates:
1899-1905.
Photocopy of diary of Lance-Corporal R Dick in the Boer War.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9244
Dates:
1899-1900.
Typescript carbon copy of diary of South African War of James Bowstead Craik, as private in 19th Company, Imperial Yeomanry.
Item
Identifier: Acc.7803
Dates:
1901-1902.