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Map gridded at 5000 yard intervals. Printed on paper.

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Annotated map, believed to have been owned by McCleland and used during his time fighting in Belgium in the First World War.

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Includes a manual, issued by Allied High Command, with advice and help on matters such as building a refuge, first aid and food distribution during a German invasion.

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Correspondence and papers regarding Belgium

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Includes: correspondence with John MacGregor MP (Minister of State, MAFF), relating to the Common Agricultural Policy, and with Ian Gow MP

Scope and Contents Letters written mainly while MS was in Belgium and Germany with her ATS unit [Auxiliary Territorial Service]. Other subjects besides MS's ATS work include: a visit to Paris [France]; driving through the wreck of Hamburg; visiting the site of Belsen; reaction in the forces to the General Election campaign; the Potsdam Conference; the success of CSC's visit to the Soviet Union; an inspection by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery; the loss of the General Election; buying 27 Hyde Park Gate...

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Comprising: Home, Clevedon, Eton; Sandhurst and Examinations; The Grenadier Guards; Racing: a Story of the Inevitable; Ireland; Canada; South African War 1900-1902; Tennis, Hunting, Stalking, Golf, Fishing and Shooting; The First German War: France and Belgium; Italy; Some Notes on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto and After; From Aldershot to Washington; and War Office 1922-26.
With correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1925 (2).

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Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including those in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Belgium, Finland and Denmark.

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Correspondence regarding foreign observatories, including observatories in Turkey, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Belgium, Sweden and India.

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Correspondence with Belgian observatories, including correspondence with P.F. Swings of the Institute of Astrophysics, University of Liege, and correspondence with M. Vandekerkhove, Royal Observatory, Belgium, regarding the death of His Majesty King George VI.

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Correspondence with Belgian observatories, including P. Bourgeois of the Royal Observatory, Belgium.

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Correspondence with foreign observatories, including those in Finland, Belgium, Mexico, South Africa (the Union Observatory), Italy, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Rome, Argentina and Brazil.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with various overseas observatories, A-R, including the following items:Australia: papers concerning the 150-inch telescope proposal, the use of the Isaac Newton Telescope at the Mount Stromlo Observatory, and other observatories.Egypt: correspondence concerned mainly with the Helwan Observatory, including observing trips, maintenance and students studying at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.Africa: correspondence with various African observatories,...

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Diary annotated 'Odyssey No. 3'. Whitby is in the Nijmegen salient, which is still being shelled. He mentions the Prime Minister (although but doubtful if he was on this trip). Notebook annotated 'B. L. A.' recording visits to hospitals and others met on the tour, discussions of blood stocks, treatments for patients seen etc.

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Written on blank spaces of a printed almanac. Attached at beginning is a journal by Romilly of a tour in Holland and Belgium, Sep. 1818.

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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, manuscripts of books, articles, lectures, broadcasts, preparatory notes, copies of original papers used in research, card indexes, subject files for the official naval history of the Second World War, press cuttings, microfilms and photographs.

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Pembroke holds five volumes and one draft volume of Montague Garrard Drake’s travel diaries, written on paper with vellum limp binding and leather ties.

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Includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, articles and other miscellaneous papers.

Scope and Contents Notebook kept by LSA while on the staff of General Sir Henry Rawlinson [commander, 4th Corps]. Contains conversations and messages between Rawlinson and officers including Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War], Colonel William Fairholme and Marshal Joseph Joffre [Chief of French General Staff] on the German advance towards Antwerp [Belgium] and the need for more troops to relieve the city, getting troops out from Ghent, sending the Belgian forces out of the front...

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Journal kept by LSA during the defence of Antwerp [Belgium] and the subsequent Allied retreat, including LSA's later written account of events.

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Journal kept by LSA during and after the first battle of Ypres [Belgium], including extracts from accounts by other soldiers.

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Notes kept by LSA during and after the first battle of Ypres [Belgium], including: messages to and from the 7th Division; written narrative of events by Major-General Thompson Capper [7th Division]; war diary of the 7th Division; operation orders of the division; brigade reports and staff diaries, particularly of the 22nd Brigade [of the 7th Division]; notes of a talk with Major-General Sydney Lawford [22nd Brigade].

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Notes kept by LSA during and after the first battle of Ypres [Belgium], including: accounts of the battle by other soldiers; orders and messages of the 20th Brigade [of 7th Division]; accounts of actions by individual soldiers.

Scope and Contents Notes and reports by LSA and others on subjects including: positioning of trenches; French troop movements; general orders to German infantry; LSA being attached to the 1st Birmingham Battalion; instructions for General Staff, 4th Army Corps; Allied forces lined up against the German 4th and 6th Armies and projected Allied advances in the Ypres area [Belgium]; operations of the 4th Army Corps (December); German reinforcements on the Western and Eastern fronts and the advantages of an...