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Place Irrawaddy River, Myanmar

1. Mss Eur C404

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Mss Eur C404
Title:
Alexander Bulstrode Fenton papers.
Scope & Content:
Letters of Maj (later Brig-Gen) Alexander Bulstrode Fenton (1856-1942), British Army 1873-76, Indian Army 1876-1911, to his family describing his life in India as a young cavalry officer and including a series of letters, dated 1889-90, written while serving in Burma following the Burmese War of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1890
Extent:
220 folios

2. Mss Eur C499

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C499
Title:
Roger Warwick Franklin papers.
Scope & Content:
`A Burma Bobby': typescript memoir with photographs, dated 1969, by `A Meer-Nemo' alias Roger Warwick Franklin (b 1896), Indian Police, Burma 1919-31, describing his life as a district superintendent of police in Burma.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1931
Extent:
1 volume

3. Mss Eur C776

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C776
Title:
Edmund de Laune Faunce papers.
Scope & Content:
`Memories of India 1907-1947: memories of India, England, Burma and Malaya in the twilight of Empire'and `More Memories of India' by Edmund de Laune Faunce (b 1907), Indian Army, Burma Rifles 1927, Indian Army Ordnance Corps 1934-47.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1947
Extent:
2 volumes

4. Mss Eur C777

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C777
Title:
Rosemary Beatrice Schofield papers.
Scope & Content:
`Mandalay': brief essay by Mrs Rosemary Beatrice Schofield (b 1910) describing the Burmese and contrasting the Burmese and European quarters of the city.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 folder

5. Mss Eur C800

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C800
Title:
Geoffrey A F Grindle papers.
Scope & Content:
`Fun is where you find it': memoir by Geoffrey A F Grindle, employee of British Burmah Petroleum Company 1926-42 of his experiences in the Burma oil fields; prefaced by a history of the oil industry in Burma.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926-1942
Extent:
1 folder

6. Mss Eur Photo Eur 411

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Photo Eur 411
Title:
Copies of letters from Ralph Esmond Selby Tanner (b 1921)
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1945-1946
Extent:
13 items

7. Mss Eur Photo Eur 419

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Photo Eur 419
Title:
John Revill Case papers.
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 folder

8. Photo 180(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 180(25)
Title:
Curiously rigged freight boat with standing oarsmen, on the broad Irrawaddy River, Burma. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Shows a laung-zat or rice paddy boat on the Irrawaddy, with characteristic high carved stern and bipod mast. Stereoscopic pair.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 180(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 180(29)
Title:
Timber raft coming down the Irrawaddy River - the floating home of a group of natives, Burma. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic pair.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1402(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1402(3)
Title:
3. Paddy Boat. Photographer(s): Unknown.
Scope & Content:
Boat with numerous oarsmen carrying rice in its hold on the Irrawaddy River. Large building on the background with smaller boats and a fisherman about. Photographer probably Klier, Philip Adolphe.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1908
Extent:
1 item