`Rambling Notes on Burma': copy of author's manuscript for a lecture delivered to the Lancaster Gate Club, 10 Feb 1891, by General Richard Drakes Ardagh (1823-99), Madras Army 1840-99.
`Jungle Notes by a Jungle Wallah's Wife': copy of memoir, written c1906, by Mabel Camroux Morris, wife of Randolph Hayton Morris (d 1918), coffee planter, describing their hunting adventures in the Biligiri-Rangan Hills, Mysore, in the 1890s; also includes a short history of the Biligiri-Rangan E...
`With a Mountain Battery in India (1926-33)': memoir, dated 1979, by P J Warren (b 1905) of his service as Artificer with a Royal Artillery Mountain Battery in the North-West Frontier Province and the Punjab.
Copy of manuscript memoirs of Col James Skinner of Skinner's Horse (1778-1841), covering his life up to c1808, with copies of papers, dated 1803-32, referring to him. [James Baillie Fraser's `Military Memoir' of Skinner (London 1851) is thought to have been based on this document].
Foreign Office Research Note 5/79 on alleged activities of Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) in Afghanistan, while serving as Aircraftman Shaw with the RAF at Miranshah, Waziristan 1928-29.
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Foreign Office Research Note 5/79 on alleged activities of Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) in Afghanistan, while serving as Aircraftman Shaw with the RAF at Miranshah, Waziristan 1928-29.
Typescript copy of unexpurgated memoirs, completed c1813-14, of William Hickey (b 1749), attorney in India 1777-1808, describing his childhood, earlier voyages to India and elsewhere, life and career in India, and retirement in England up to 1809. [For published versions see `Memoirs' ed by Alfre...
Biographical notes by Rupert Shepherd, with photographs, on Theodore Beck (1859-99), Principal of the Mahommedan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh 1884-99, his sister Jessie Beck (1860-1936), Hon Secretary of the National Indian Association 1905-32, and other members of the family.
`Those Blue Remembered Hills': the memoirs of Lt-Col Hubert Boyd Hudson (b 1908), 15th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army 1932-48, including descriptions of service on the North-West Frontier, in Tibet as part of the British Escort Force and in North-East Assam and Italy during the Second World War.
Brigade and General Orders Book, Bombay, dated Jan 1784-Mar 1785, compiled in the Town Major's Office and containing orders relating to military administration including notices concerning appointments, postings, promotions, pay, and sentences of courts martial.