Urdu Companion, compiled by the General Staff, India
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Part I is a list of useful Urdu words, with the names of Indian servants and tradesmen; and Part II is a list of the commoner English words used in the Indian Army
Pages from the social news section of The Onlooker magazine, and a page from The Sphere magazine showing a painting by Harrington Mann, 'Bobby and Bayard, the sons of Robert Livingstone Clarkson, Esq.' exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1930
Pamphlet issued during the First World War giving instructions on the following aspects of serving in the trenches: taking over and handing over trenches; trench routine; work on trenches; action in case of attack; precautions against gas; and communications, with appendices giving a list of tren...
Notes which have been obtained from other formations on the present fighting on the Somme
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Typescript notes giving information gained through the experience of fighting by other British Army units during the First World War, and distributed to company and platoon commanders
Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action, issued by the General Staff
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Pamphlet issued during the First World War to assist Platoon Commanders in training their platoons in fighting, and includes diagrams on the best methods for attacking trenches and in open warfare
Forbe's Hindustani Manual by Duncan Forbes, third edition (London: Wm H Allen & Co, 1867)
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"The Hindustani Manual, a pocket companion for all those who visit India in any capacity; intended to facilitate the essential attainments of conversing with fluency, and composing with accuracy, in the most useful of all the languages spoken in our Eastern Empire". In two parts: Part I, a com...
"A Pair of Chaplis and a Cassock" by Leslie Mallam and Diana Day
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Memoir by Lt Col The Rev George Leslie Mallam. Includes the following photographs: Yusafzai tribal escort in the Swat Valley (1940). Sheikh Hamad, son of Sheikh Isa, Al Khalifa (with son), Ruler of Bahrain (1925). Pearl divers on banks off Bahrain. H.M. King Nadir Shah (1933). Old Red Fort, Bam...