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  <dc:title>Files relating to military service in India and other papers</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Service files and files relating to the Government of Bengal.

The papers include:
Personal File containing papers relating to Major Leith-Ross' appointment as commanding officer
Letters of recommendation from senior officers for promotion in Indian Army, 1923-1927
War service record of Major Leith-Ross

Papers from period Leith-Ross was Commandant of Berhampore Detention Camp, Murshidabad, c.1933-35
Re-prints of short stories/articles written by Leith-Ross and published in 'The Listener' and Blackwood's Magazine
Transcripts from field service notebooks kept as diaries by Leith-Ross 1904- 1932 including two from 1914-1918
Papers relating to service in 1st Midlothian Battalion Home Guard, c.1941-1945
Copies of 'The Piffer', journal of the P.F.F. Officers' Association, 1958-81
File of papers/correspondence regarding record of service including postings during 1914-1918.
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  <dc:date>c.1914-1981</dc:date>
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