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Language English Name Royal Engineers, 1717- Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 42068

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Add MS 42068
Title:
'TRAITE DE FORTIFICATIONS: De l'art de fortifier les places ou l'on explique les differens Sistemes qui ont ete Mis en usage jusqu a ce jour et les differens dehors qui ont ete pratiquez pour eloigner les Approches Expliqué par le Sr d'Armancourt Mtre de Mathematiques. à Monsieur [Bathurst erased] qui en à (sic) dessiné les Planches 1729.' In twenty chapters, with introduction and preface, and twenty-four coloured plans. The introduction, entitled 'De l'utilite des placesfortes', reproduces ...
Scope & Content:
Fortification: Treatise by Sieur d'Armancourt, with plans: 1729.: Fr. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Royal Engineers, Corps of: 19th cent. Armancourt, Sieur - d'; Maitre de Mathématiques: Traité de Fortifications, etc.: 1729. includes: ff. 71-94 Maps and Plans: Plans, by - Bathurst, to illust...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1729
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 69848

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Add MS 69848
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SURVEY OF WESTERN PALESTINE: working papers relating to the Conder and Kitchener survey of Palestine; 1872-1877. The main part of the papers consists of sheets of calculations for bearings, co-ordinates, distances and heights. There is also a working map of the survey area at a scale of 4 miles to the inch drawn on tracing linen, with place names and heights marked, and other data marked in red, with two preliminary drawings, and two diagrams showing the system of map sheets for the area. Th...
Scope & Content:
Maps and Plans: Palestine: Colonel Claude Regnier Conder, RE: Field-Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener: Working papers rel. to Conder and Kitchener's survey of Western Palestine: 1872-1877.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872-1877
Extent:
1 item

3. Mss Eur A201

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Mss Eur A201
Title:
Beryl Marian Douglas Lee Warner papers.
Scope & Content:
`Guided Destiny' (Wisbech, c1980), memoir by Beryl Marian Douglas Lee Warner (b 1898), including her early years in India and comments on the survey work of her father Col Arthur Henry Bliss Hume (1868-1960), Royal Engineers 1888-1925, and her later life in India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898-1945
Extent:
255 pages

4. Mss Eur C259

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Mss Eur C259
Title:
Typescript copy of the memoirs of Maj-Gen Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1855-1924), Royal Engineers 1876-1918, including descriptions of his work as an engineer in India 1877-85, events during the Second Afghan war, and his experiences as Commander, Royal Engineers in the China Expeditionary Force 1900-01
Scope & Content:
Typescript copy of the memoirs of Maj-Gen Sir George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1855-1924), Royal Engineers 1876-1918, including descriptions of his work as an engineer in India 1877-85, events during the second Afghan War, and his experiences as Commander, Royal Engineers in the China Expeditionar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1901
Extent:
3 Files

5. Mss Eur C782

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Mss Eur C782
Title:
James Archibald Ferrier papers.
Scope & Content:
Memoirs of Maj-Gen James Archibald Ferrier (1854-1934), Royal Engineers 1873-1917, transcribed and annotated by his grandson Cdr James Ilay Ferrier.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1934
Extent:
1 folder

6. Mss Eur D724

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Mss Eur D724
Title:
Papers of Andrew Parke Hume, Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1927-47, and other members of the Hume family
Scope & Content:
`Hume Collection': correspondence, diaries, papers and photographs of Andrew Parke Hume (1904-65), Indian Civil Service, United Provinces 1927-47, including references to the Delhi Improvement Trust and the Govt of India Secretariat in wartime; of his father Col Arthur Henry Bliss Hume (1868-1960...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884-1960
Extent:
182 items

7. Mss Eur F114

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Mss Eur F114
Title:
Papers of Field Marshal 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, Bengal Engineers 1826; Military Member, Governor-General's Council 1861-65; C-in-C, Bombay 1865-68; commanded Abyssinian Expedition 1867-68; C-in-C, India 1870-76; Governor of Gibraltar 1876-82
Scope & Content:
Napier Collection: correspondence and papers of Robert Cornelis Napier, Field Marshal 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-90), Bengal Engineers 1826; Military Member, Governor-General's Council 1861-65; C-in-C, Bombay 1865-68; commanded Abyssinian Expedition 1867-68; C-in-C, India 1870-76; Governor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1794-1910
Extent:
68 volumes; 7 portfolios; 10 boxes

8. Mss Eur F373

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Mss Eur F373
Title:
Correspondence of Lt (later Lt-Col) Geoffrey Swayne-Thomas, Royal Engineers, and his wife April, from various places in India including the North- West Frontier, Calcutta and Sind. Mrs Swayne Thomas drew on the letters for her book 'Indian Summer: a Mem-sahib in India and Sind' (London 1981).
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of Lt (later Lt-Col) Geoffrey Swayne-Thomas, Royal Engineers, and his wife April, from various places in India including the North- West Frontier, Calcutta and Sind. Mrs Swayne Thomas drew on the letters for her book 'Indian Summer: a Mem-sahib in India and Sind' (London 1981).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940-1953
Extent:
28 Items

9. Mss Eur F425

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Mss Eur F425
Title:
Papers of Col Walter Marden Ducat (1837-1902)
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Papers of Col Walter Marden Ducat (1837-1902), Royal Engineers 1856, Bombay Public Works Dept 1858-90, relating mainly to the Gokak Water Power and Manufacturing Company, and its project to establish cotton mills driven by water power from the Gokak falls.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1889
Extent:
23 items

10. Mss Eur Photo Eur 131

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Mss Eur Photo Eur 131
Title:
James Archibald Ferrier papers.
Scope & Content:
Copies of letters of Lt (later Maj-Gen) James Archibald Ferrier (1854-1934), Royal Engineers 1873-1917, to his mother and sister in England, describing his experiences during the 2nd Afghan War and his work as an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1881
Extent:
123 folios