Military Personnel

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 22 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: obesity; sexual insufficiency; suicidal tendencies; and emotional disturbances. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Portrait photograph of the late Lieut-General Sir Herbert Macpherson, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.S.I. [b. 1827, d.1886] in his regimental uniform wearing his medals. He served in India, Afghanistan and Egypt.

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1962.

Photograph of Earl Beatty, [Sir David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty and Admiral of the Fleet] riding his horse during the United Services vs. Roehampton polo match in the early 20th century. The Earl played for Roehampton.

Photograph of a wild boar caught by French soldiers near the trenches in Alsace that became a 'regimental pet' on 20 April, 1915.

Photograph of a group of soldiers with one holding a pig that they had captured and 'arrested as a spy' when they found it wandering by the trenches in World War I.

Newpaper photograph of German officers eating dinner on tables outside a Polish farmhouse next to a farmyard with a sow and her piglets during World War I.

Photograph of two Yeomen on horseback in mid-jump over a gate at a show with buildings and people in the background in the early 20th century.