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[From the air].

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Slides taken during a visit which included New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands and New Caledonia.

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Photographs relating to the burial place of Colonel McCrae. John McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario in 1872 and became a doctor. In 1914 he enlisted as a Medical Officer in the 1st Canadian Contingent, and died in France in January 1918. His poem, 'In Flanders Fields' inspired the use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance.

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115 x 160 mm.

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Letters, diaries and photographs.

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120 x 177 mm. A view showing a Lifu Island man, armed with a wooden club and standing in a similar studio set-up to the previous plate. Lifu is the largest of the Loyalty Islands.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The majority of the photographs relate to the early stages of Sheppard’s career with the Malayan Civil Service. They illustrate his accommodation; varied range of work in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak and Terengganu; Malay and European colleagues; official events, military service, travel and recreation. A number of prints are uncaptioned and have been provided with tentative titles in square brackets and approximate dates. The images begin with Sheppard's arrival in Jan. 1928...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The majority of the photographs relate to the early stages of Sheppard’s career with the Malayan Civil Service. They illustrate his accommodation; varied range of work in Kuala Lumpur, Pahang, Perak and Terengganu; Malay and European colleagues; official events, military service, travel and recreation. A number of prints are uncaptioned and have been provided with tentative titles in square brackets and approximate dates. The images begin with Sheppard's arrival in Jan. 1928...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the journey to the Yalta Conference; the death of Admiral Sir William Goodenough; public concern at conditions in France and Clementine's suggestion that Churchill could influence the Americans to release transport for food and coal distribution; Churchill's success at Yalta [Soviet Union]; a V-2 rocket attack on part of the Fulmer Chase Maternity Home for officers' wives [of which Clementine was Chairman]; Clementine's journey to the Soviet Union for the Red Cross Aid to...

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184 x 120 mm. A view looking across the bay towards the north-west face of Mont Saint-Michel. Photographer unknown.

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169 x 119 mm. A view looking towards the castle on Mount Saint-Michel from the Causeway. Photographer unknown.

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An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

Scope and Contents From the File: An album containing 106 collodio-chloride prints, a few outside the dates printed on the cover. Most are professional work of high quality. Not all relate to India. There is one photograph of Cambridge in 1902 (24); ten taken in Ireland during 1902-03, presumably during Douglas's leave, including sporting scenes and a wedding; six photographs of Sri Lanka (65-70); four of Hong Kong (71-74) and four of Paris (75-78) dated 1907.A number of items have been inserted, including amateur...

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125 x 80 mm. View looking down a street. The coastline and sea can be seen in the background.

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139 x 89 mm. A postcard view showing De Salvert seated in his biplane. The picture is annotated 'Rheims. Aug. 1909' in Bell's hand.

Scope and Contents This file begins in Sept. 1934 with Benson’s employment by East African Concessions Ltd prospecting for gold in western Kenya near Kakamega. He was based at camps at Kibiri, Esikongo and Chebutubu. Photographs documenting the camps and Benson’s work may be found at RCMS 364/2/1. In Oct. 1935, Benson was transferred to Tanganyika, prospecting in the Sanza Concession near Mwanza. During 1936 he was employed as a diamond driller near Geita. In Dec. 1937 Benson joined Gold Coast...

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Letters from Rowland Childers to his parents, from France, 1869; Harrow, 1869-74 and Balliol, 1874-77. Includes letter from W.C. Wheeler to H.C.E. Childers, 1866 (6) and draft letters from H.C.E. Childers to Rowland Childers, 1875 and 1877 (79, 80, 84).

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Letter to General Maurice Gamelin [Commander-in-Chief of French Army] from General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), and to General 6th Lord Gort [Commander-in-Chief of British Field Force, earlier John Vereker] from Hore-Belisha about the measures to supplement the Field Force, with Gort's reply.