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Ethel Miller
Fonds
Identifier: GD1/142
Scope and Contents
Nursing certificate, loose photographs, and autograph album.
Dates:
1915 - 1919
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Handmade magazine The Cavalier, double Xmas no 1916 Vol. IV, together with a photograph album of the Smythe family
Collection — Box: CLX-A-375
Identifier: Coll-1880
Scope and Contents
One handmade 'magazine' constructed by Scottish ladies forming a group called 'The Cavalier Club', composed of Barbara E. Smythe (editor), Susy F. Lumsden (treasurer), Jean Drummond, Victoria A. Drummond, Frances A. Drummond, Doreen Arbuthnot, and Susan Newdegate. The magazine is entitled The Calavier and was to be borrowed by a select group of recipients, to help raise funds for the war effort. This is the Double Xmas no. 1916, vol IV. It includes short...
Dates:
1916-1930
Isabella Lamont
Fonds
Identifier: GD1/140
Scope and Contents
Nursing certificate, photograph album, nursing badge, newspaper clipping, loose photographs, poem, and autograph albums with drawings and dedications.
Dates:
1903 - 1940
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Letters from Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1692
Identifier: Coll-2020
Content Description
This collection consists of typescript letters sent by Professor George Saintsbury to Rev. William Hunt D Litt., arranged in chronological order, dating from 1895 to 1932. The subjects of these letters are diverse, from family and personal matters, to literature and political discussions.
First lot: "Letters Christmas Eve 1895 to Dec. 1917. Autograph letters and typescript copies of these letters have been sent...
Dates:
1895-1932
Macdonald, Elizabeth Mackay
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-30
Scope and Contents
Certificate of training 1910; certificate of registration Edinburgh City Hospital 1911; regulations for admission to Nursing Service Reserve 1908; letters of pay authorisation 1915; uniform and camp kit lists for Reserve; RIE School of Nursing certificate 1914; World War I passport 1914; military hospital identity card 1915
Dates:
1908-1915
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
Medals, awards and decorations of William Hunter
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1146
Scope and Contents
At E2008.33, the collection of Prize orders, medals, and medallions awarded to William Hunter is composed of:
- the Serbian Order of St. Sava - bejewelled breast Star
- the Serbian Order of St. Sava - Medallion/Badge with ribbon; the obverse of the cross bears an oval enamelled portrait of the bishop St. Sava, the centre of which is encircled by blue and the motto of the order in old cyrillic...
Dates:
1879-1920
Papers of Professor Alexander C. Aitken
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1068
Scope and Contents
The collections is composed of autobiographical, biographical, memoir, and obituary material relating to Professor A. C. Aitken; war souvenirs and maps; correspondence relating to Aitken's publication From Gallipoli to the Somme; review material relating to From Gallipoli to the Somme; circa 20 photographs, both portrait and group; 3 commonplace (scrap-)books containing cuttings and newspaper articles on a variety of subjects -...
Dates:
1894-1980
Simmons, Ida
Fonds
Identifier: GD1-33
Scope and Contents
Nursing certificates 1919-1926; documents regarding later work 1940-1950, WWI war medals; M.B.E. medal
Dates:
1919-1950
Found in:
Lothian Health Services Archive
The Duncan and James Strang Collection
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1624
Identifier: Coll-1885
Content Description
This fonds is composed of The Seaforth Highlanders’ diary, which is in fact a collection of typescripts and manuscripts by Duncan W. P. Strang written during the First World War. They mainly contain a typescript draft of an unifinished book on the Seaforth Highlanders during the war, as well as abstracts of diaries and accounts of battles and tactical operations, and reflection on war and military strategy.The first text is the most structured and the most...
Dates:
1914-1918
William Burton-Stewart bound Game books
Collection — Box: CLX-D-72
Identifier: Coll-1887
Scope and Contents
Two 'game books' which belonged to Major William Burton-Stewart, containing score tables recording his session of game birds shooting and black-and-white photographs of social events, hunting, and people. It also includes sketches and handwritten biographical and travelling accounts by Burton-Stewart himself. Places mentioned in the game books include Ratho Park, Conaglen, Stroud, Darleith, Lothians and the Borders, Venice, India, Ontario (Canada), etc.Highlights in the first album...
Dates:
1889-1935
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- Arbuthnot, Doreen, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Frances A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Jean, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Drummond, Victoria A, fl 1910s (contributor to 'The Cavalier' magazine) 1
- Hunt, William, 1842-1931 (Church historian) 1
- Hunter, William, 1861-1937 (Physician; Army Colonel) 1
- Lumsden, Susy F, fl 1910s (treasurer of 'The Cavalier club') 1
- Pilcher, Percy, 1866-1899 (British aviation pioneer) 1
- Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1729-:) 1
- Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman, 1845-1933 (literary critic and historian) 1
- Seaforth Highlanders (1881-1961) (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) 1
- Smythe, Barbara E, b 1899 (editor of The Cavalier) 1
- Stewart, William Burton-, 1872-1936 (Scottish solider and politician) 1
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