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Specimen letter forms used in the Military Dept during the 1860s for replying to enquiries on the whereabouts of soldiers, soldiers' effects, prize money, medals and discharges;
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with a War Office letter of 11 Nov 1861 asking for medals or money due to soldiers to be transferred direct to their CO or to the Adjutant-General
Report of Col Sir Henry McMahon, KCIE, CSI, Chief Officer on special duty with the Amir of Afghanistan (Simla: Printed at the Government Monotype Press)
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Report on the visit of the Amir of Afghanistan to India. The report is stamped Foreign Department Library, Calcutta, and contains two plans: Plan of proposed camps for His Highness the Amir of Kabul, dated 5th January 1907 Plan of His Highness the Amir's camp, Agra
The volume contains nominal rolls of British and EIC [East India Company] troops’ unpaid shares, called battas (ff 21-46, ff 49-99, f 101, and ff 160-128) with copies of related correspondence. The troops were involved in a Persian expedition conducted by the EIC, and the related correspondence ...
Collection 355. Suggestions for the prevention of cholera
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Suggestions for the prevention of cholera among troops on the march in India, by Maj Hubert Marshall, 33rd Madras NI, originally published at Madras as two letters to the Spectator, with an essay by Surgeon James Kellie, Madras Army, 'remarks' of the press, and extracts from private letters
