Typescript copy of memoir by Lt-Col (later Gen) David Birrell (1801-78), Bengal Army 1818-76, describing army life mostly spent with the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers, and his experiences during the 1st Sikh War and at the battle of Sobroan, 1846.
A few miscellaneous papers and letters concerning East India Company affairs at home and abroad, including arrangements for voyages to India and China, and correspondence between Company servants about the settlement at St Helena.
Typescript, dated 1983, of `Burma Memoir 1924-1948' by Alwyn Henry Seppings (b 1924), including an account of his family's escape to India in 1942, with photographs of Burma dated 1932-46.
Papers, comprising the family correspondence and sketches from the diaries of Fredrick William Emery, jeweller of Orr & Sons, Madras, and his wife Florence Harriet Esther Emery, and the diaries o their daughter Gwendoline Winifred Emery (b1890), medical missionary in Patna; also includes miscellaneous memorabilia and documents.
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Papers comprising the family correspondence and diaries of Frederick William Emery, jeweller of Orr & Sons Madras, and his wife Florence Harriet Esther Emery, and the diaries of their daughter Gwendoline Winifred Emery (b 1890), medical missionary in Patna, with miscellaneous memorabilia and ...
Papers and negative photographs of Lt-Col Hubert Boyd Hudson, 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army 1932-48, including accounts of his impressions of India and of partition, a copy of a diary written in 1945 during his service in Italy with the 3rd Mahratta Light Infantry, and miscellaneous items abo...
Papers of Sgt John Godlement (1873-1938) including documents concerning his service as a Private in the 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers 1895-1907, stationed mainly in India, and as a Sergeant in the Welsh Regiment 1915-18.
Photocopies of articles on the Andaman Islands by Mrs E H M Lowis, wife of Reginald Feudall Lowis, Assistant Superintendent, Port Blair 1898 and Deputy Commissioner 1914-1922, and brief typescript memoir, dated 1969, by their daughter Mary Hope Wemyss Deane, wife of Lancelot Victor Deane, Assista...
Papers of E W R Lumby, India Office official, and author of book on transfer of power in India
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Papers of Esmond Walter Rawson Lumby (1909-72), India Office official 1934-48, lecturer, Royal Naval College 1948-68, including copies of official information summaries on India, Pakistan and Burma, and papers relating to his book `The Transfer of Power in India' (1954).
Manuscript and page proofs of `Last and First in Burma' (1956) by Maurice Stewart Collis (1889-1973), Indian Civil Service, Burma 1912-36, with photographs, and correspondence with Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma 1941-46, and other officials with experience of Burma during World...
Papers and letters of Maj Martin Boileau Whish (1817-65), Bengal Army 1837-65, including accounts of his service during the Mutiny; also miscellaneous documents, dated c1893-1945, concerning the Whish, Turner, Darling, Hill and Pickard- Cambridge families.