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Mostly written from South Africa, describing camp life and commenting on the blockhouse system.

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Concerns visits to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the East Indies, China and Japan.

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Includes transcript of description. With letter and pocket book containg active service notes.

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Recording his campaigns in South Africa, South America, and the Peninsular War, with photocopy of printed transcript, 1921.

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A copy in typescript carbon presented, December 1903, by Colonel Forbes Macbean and Captain W E Gordon to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Greenhill-Gardyne.

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Gives impressions of the scenery, games and meeting with missionaries, including David Livingstone.

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Includes accounts of expeditions in South Africa, Northern Nigeria, India and Scotland, with illustrations and maps by himself and his sister, Mary Barbara Campbell.

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...

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Describing service in the Royal Engineers in South Africa and German East Africa.

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Letters from family friends in the Borders, and from army colleagues of Sir Philip, including several letters from South Africa.

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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.

Scope and Contents This collection of letters and telegrams had been numbered before copies were received by the Library, and this numbering has been adhered to. All letters are from Lord Herbert Scott (henceforth HS) to his mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, unless otherwise stated.The sequence of numbers 1 to 61, and 74 to 107, are chronological. Numbers 62 to 73 are an interpolation of telegrams, and this comprises a duplicate chronological sequence.1. 18 January 1899 [or rather...

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Includes many taken during civilian and military service in South Africa.

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Containing scenes, people and actions in Scotland, South Africa, Afghanistan and Egypt.