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Army officers

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

Major-General Henry Despard: letter book

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 279
Scope and Contents

Bound volume titled on spine, 'Commanding Officer's Letter Book | Private'. Contains summaries or full transcripts of over 300 letters, both private and official, relating to the period when Henry Despard was commanding the 99th Regiment in Sydney (1846-8) and Hobart Town (1848-54) and in undertaking special duties in the Victorian goldfields (1853). The correspondence largely relates to regimental organisation, discipline and welfare. 128pp., with index to letters at rear of volume.

Dates: Mar. 1846-Aug. 1854
 Fonds

Scrapbook of George Turnour Horton Atchison

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10497
Scope and Contents The archive is comprised of a scrapbook of fixed items (GBR/0012/MS Add.10497/1-46), mainly relating to the military career of George Turnour Horton Atchison (1833-1861), compiled after his death in China by his sister, Anne Beatrix Granville Atchison, together with loose items interleaved in the scrapbook, which have been housed in a separate folder (GBR/0012/MS Add.10479/47-90). The loose items’ previous location in the scrapbook (which has been foliated 1-44 by the archivists) has been...
Dates: 1851-1861