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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 3346/16
TitleAccounts of military life in India and other papers
DateTwentieth century
Extent1 box
DescriptionStories, diaries.

Includes:
Trench log book - used for notes on unrelated matters but important record of information expected to be recorded by officers during First World War. Divided into sections such as No Man's Land, Hostile Wire & Other Artificial Obstacles, Hostile Patrols. This is noted as being Army Book 419 (1916).

In same file typed diary notes of tiger shoot at Chikalda (1923).
Further copy of the extract from the diary on the tiger shoot .Also present a copy of "The female of the species- a tigress."

Diary of W. Leith-Ross 15th January 1923 to 1st March 1923.

Story of bullet which was stopped by a uniform button at Neuve Chapelle in January 1915.
Story of Pemby's Parade- recalled after 30 years.
Story of the "The Musketry Cup"( An event at Bannu around 1911).

A list of Subjects for Stories.
A note on "The Unofficial Jisga".
Draft notes for "The Saidgi Thief".
A typed copy of "Fin, Fur and Feather."
A folder containing a letter to the editor of Blackwood's Magazine accompanying a copy of "Fin, Fur and Feather" and two typed copies of the Beas River fishing diary, 1931.
Envelope containing notes on stories.
Envelope, entitled "Family"containing draft of "Some wild animals I have known".
Copy of Blackwood's Magazine, May 1941 containing story "Fish- and chips" page 456-465.
Invitation "order" to the Backward Boys dinner party on 20th August, 1925.
Copy of "The Musketry Cup"(typed).
Copy of "The Chikalda Tiger Shoot".
Copy from The Listener of " A Bombardment of Hail".
Folder entitled Departure from ------------ containing the following: Map showing daily movements from Baghdad, a copy of "A Bombardment of Hail" from The Listener, 18th January 1940, letters from W. Birchwood , in Cambridge on 9th June 1933 to Leith- Ross in Bengal, envelope containing service record of Colonel leith-Ross, a copy from Blackwood's Magazine of Fish- and Chips, single sheet Battalion Orders, Bahukm 21st April 1933, programme of events for visit of C.O. Major General S.B. Pope,16th to 22nd April 1933, telegram 28th April 1933 to Detention Camp at Berhampore and a copy of "Pemby's Parade".
Copy of "Fin , Fur and Feathers and note of fish caught.
Notes on "Conditions in Lower Euphrates, 1920".
Folder(Prisons Department for Scotland) Sarda fishing trip, 1926, typed notes and fish records.Letter from Blackwoods in payment for article(Fish- and Chips).
Copy of "A Bombardment of Hell" BBC 1940 1st January.
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