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Soldiers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Album of 96 photographs taken during Daniel Cunningham's service in South Africa with the Army Medical Commission, 1901

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/A9
Scope and Contents

Album of 96 photographs taken during Daniel John Cunningham's service in South Africa with the Army Medical Commission: subjects include army camps, infirmaries, railroads, native population.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Biographical material

"All That Was Left of Them": The Thirteen Sole Survivors of the Second Grenadier Guards, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3269
Scope and Contents

Photograph of thirteen soldiers that were the sole survivors of the Second Grenadier Guards that fought in World War I and another photograph of two of the survivors with their horses, the 'old contemptables' that survived the war as well.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

[Camel-Soldiers in the Desert], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3430
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of [Egyptian?] camel-soldiers with their camels in the desert in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Camel Sowars, Golconda, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3433
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of Camel Sowars, mounted soldiers in India, in a field in Golconda, [India] in the late 19th or early 20th century. The name 'Wallace' has been handwritten on the label.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Dublin "Special Addresses", c 1901

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/C6
Scope and Contents

Dublin "Special Addresses": on "Anthropoid Apes; in support of a motion re. Society (sic) aid to soldiers and sailors; opening of an exhibition at Trinity College Natural History Museum; to the Biological Association, Trinity College Dublin, on the muscular system.

Dates: c 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Records of lectures, speeches and addresses

Famous War Heroine, Lieutenant Flora Sanders, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3256
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the famous war heroine, Lieutenant Flora Sanders who served with the Serbian Army during World War I and 'received many awards for bravery' standing with her brother in a doorway at Bendigo, Australia in 1921.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

General Louis Botha, Premier of the Transvaal [South Africa], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1144
Scope and Contents

Portrait photograph of General Louis Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, South Africa from 1907-1910.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Note and stories relating to Flora MacDonald's family, 12 April 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/77
Scope and Contents Note and stories collected from Mrs MacLellan, Ormacleit [Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] relating to Flora MacDonald's family, including the relationship between Mrs MacLellan's own family and Flora's family, Mrs MacLellan being the grand-daughter of Flora's younger brother Angus. Angus had a very large family of ten sons and four daughters. Her family connections with other well known MacDonald families are also noted. The story of how Flora's eldest brother Ranald died in a gun...
Dates: 12 April 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Papers of John V. Stuart Duncan

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-2002
Content Description This fonds consists of students records, correspondence, diaries, photographs, and training books formerly belonging to Flying Officer John V. Stuart Duncan RAFVR, killed aged 20 on active service in Weston Zoyland, Somerset, on 30 May 1943. School and University records; Diaries (one marked vol. 2, one small diary); Letters during his time in the UK; while training in...
Dates: c 1920s-c 1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Photograph of a watercolour of Indian soldier, mid 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1619/10/9
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a watercolour of Indian soldier, drawing signed A[lexander [H]unter.

Dates: mid 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn / Folded sheet of an unidentified madras newspaper containing sketches, watercolour paintings, drawings, etching and photographs

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