World War, 1914-1918
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
Shot Three Spies, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3205
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Private John Williams, 'born in India twenty years ago and joined the army in 1914' and won many awards, including the Victory Cross, who shot three German spies posing as British officers during World War I.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
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
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Simmons, Ida
The Boche Versus the Thistles, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3179
Scope and Contents
Political cartoon showing German World War I soldiers being attacked by smiling thistles and forced to retreat.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
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
The Growth of Christian Architecture as Exemplified by some French Cathedrals, c1916
Item
Identifier: BAI 1/13/10
Scope and Contents
Typescript of The Growth of Christian Architecture as Exemplified by some French Cathedrals, the text of a lecture John Baillie gave while in France during the First World War.
Dates:
c1916
The Kaiser and the Czar, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3207
Scope and Contents
Photograph of the German Kaiser and the Russian Czar meeting on [29 July 1914] to discuss a peaceful settlement to the Serbian issue.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Typescript entitled 'On Land, Sea, and Ice. An Autobiography' by J. Burn Wood, including correspondence with Alexander F. Giles, 1947
Item — Box CLX-A-367: Series Coll-1828/3
Identifier: Coll-1828/5
Scope and Contents
This typescript was donated with the papers of Alexander F. Giles but does not seem to be related to the rest of the documents. It came into Giles's possession when the author, who studied at the Univeristy of Edinburgh in the 1890s, sent it to him after 'the receipt of a circular sent out in support of the University of Edinburgh Graduates Association', in 1947. Giles was then the editor of the University of Edinburgh Journal. It does not appear that the typescript was published.The...
Dates:
1947
War. A Well-Earned Meal, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2579
Scope and Contents
Photograph from a newspaper during World War I entitled, 'A Well-Earned Meal' showing a small group of 'Belgian soldiers feeding their dogs by the roadside. These animals are very strong and can draw quite heavy carts without any difficulty.'
Dates:
1870s-1930s
William Burton-Stewart bound Game books
Collection — Box CLX-D-72: Series Coll-1828/6
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
Wound Up, But Why Not Spinning?, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3166
Scope and Contents
Cartoon illustration entitled, "Wound Up, But Why Not Spinning?" commenting on the red tape on trade with enemy firms from the Financial Mail, November 11, 1910.
Dates:
1870s-1930s