First World War (1914-1918).
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
87 aerial photographs of places near the Western Front, taken from a German aircraft.
Account, 1918, of C.S. Kellas, 9th Company, Machine Gun Corps, describing his First World War experiences, and wedding photograph, 1920s.
Account of First World War experiences April-July 1917 of an officer in the Royal Artillery, probably William Marshall Craig.
"An Account of the Action off the Little Fisher Bank [the Battle of Jutland] May 31st 1916" by the Reverend R H Malden, Chaplain, Royal Navy on HMS Valiant.
Includes related letter to Mrs Simpson, Abbotsknowe, Peebles, and a privately printed memoir of "The Battle of Jutland" (Leeds, 1918).
Autograph album of Alison E. Fraser, Birchwood, Inverness.
Autograph album, 1918-1920, of Alison E. Fraser, Birchwood, Inverness. The album contains many sketches, poems and handwritten notes from those who had stayed in or passed through Birchwood during this period. Many entries are by American and Canadian servicemen based in the area, including at Invergordon and Inverness.
Copies of letters of James Bannerman Lorimer.
Mostly written from the Western Front.
Copy of Orlo Williams, "The Evacuation of the Dardanelles".
Article published in the National Review, includes letter and marginalia of Major-General Granville-Egerton.
Correspondence and related papers of the De Pree and Haig families.
Correspondence of Gertrude Susan Nicholson.
Concern panels for prisoners of war.
Correspondence of Private David Riddell, 1st Gordon Highlanders and prisoner of war during the First World War.
Diary of a Miss Cumming.
Describing her time as a Red Cross nurse in Bulgaria.
Diary of Barbara E Smythe during her time as a nurse at Keir.
Diary of Daniel Murray Smillie, officer in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during WW1.
Documents relating to the military tribunal of Alexander Frame Smillie, conscientious objector during WWI.
Facsimile, after 1918, of a sketchbook, ?1916, of caricatures of officers of the Royal Scots during the First World War.
The artist is anonymous, but notes in the sketchbook indicate that his first name was Robin.
First World War diary of Alexander Meiklejohn, Royal Engineers, serving with the ANZAC signals at Gallipoli.
Letter of General C. Gassoins, commanding the 17th (French) Division, to Major General Hamilton Lyster Reed, commanding the 15th (Scottish) Division.
Letter of Private John Anderson, Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, to Miss Katharine Robertson.
Letter, February 1915, of Private John Anderson, `B` Company, 1st Queen`s Own Cameron Highlanders, describing experiences on the Western Front during the First World War.
The letter is addressed to Miss Katharine Robertson, Edinburgh, whose brother Lieutenant Lewis Robertson, also of the 1st Cameron Highlanders, died of his wounds in November 1914. Private Anderson was instructed to write the letter to Miss Robertson by Major Yeadon, commanding the Battalion.