Copies of letters from Ralph Esmond Selby Tanner (b 1921)
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Copies of letters from Ralph Esmond Selby Tanner (b 1921), written to his wife while serving in the British Military Government, Burma 1945-46, and Burma Frontier Service 1946-48; also memoir of his post-war service in Burma, written 1995.
Copies of letters from Evelyn Booth to her parents written while staying in India Dec 1929 - Dec 1930 with her relative George Cunningham who at that time was Private Secretary to the Viceroy
`A personal narrative of the Indian Mutiny': photocopy of manuscript memoir, dated 1880, by Madeline Jackson, sister of Sir Mountstuart Goodricke Jackson, Bart, Bengal Civil Service, describing her escape with her brother from Sitarpur into the countryside until taken to Lucknow where she remaine...
Copies of papers of Lt-Col Bruce Turnbull (1880-1952), Indian Army 1900-25 including letter to his mother, dated 19 Dec 1901 and a statement of services in France 1914-15
Two letters from Patrck Crawfurd Bruce, East India Company servant, Bombay 1766-94, to Maclellan an army officer returned to Europe for whom Bruce acted as agent, commenting on Maclellan's financial affairs, the pregnancy of Maclellan's Indian mistress, animosities among local army officers, rela...
Account by John Revill Case (b c1900), Manager, British Burmah Petroleum Company Ltd, of the demolition of the Company's installations in face of the Japanese invasion, and of the British evacuation from Burma. Originally dictated 1942 and updated in 1969.