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Total number of records: 315

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Archives68

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Liddle Collection177
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world war, 1914-1918315
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Bairnsfather, Bruce (1887-1959)49
Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission25
Becke, A F15
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Edmonds, Sir James E (1861-1956)11
Churchill, Allen Leon10
Knight, Austin Melvin10
Knight, Austin Melvin (1854-1927)10
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Miller, Francis Trevelyan (1877-1959)10

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WHITTAKER, W

1914-1915

Photocopied typescript recollections, 'The Campaign in South West Africa 1914-1915', including an account of General Louis Botha (nd).

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GRIFFIN, L P

1912-1918

Photocopied typescript recollections of the First World War in Aden, East Africa and South Africa, c 1914-1918 (c 1969); Typed transcript of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle (Sep 1979).

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AMRITSAR

1919

Typescript recollections of the Jalliawala Barh incident in Apr 1919 by F McCallum (June 1975); 2 photocopied letters from R Moray Graham to the Editor of 'Reader's Digest' and to Alfred Draper, autho...

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DELAYE, R

c 1915

Photocopied Observer's Flying Log Book (1915); 7 photographs (1915, nd).

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KOCH, HEINRICH

1916

Manuscript and typescript recollections, in English and German respectively, entitled 'Verdun 1916', with typescript contents and abstracts in English and including photographs (1973).

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COTTRELL-DORMER, THOMAS

1914-1918

5 photographs, three relating to Ruhleben Horticultural Society (Nov 1914, nd); 'Ruhleben Camp Magazine' Vol. II, No. 5 (Dec 1916); 2 Christmas postcards (1914, 1917); Hand-painted and autographed din...

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Economic Germany : "German industry considered as a factor making for war"

Hauser, Henri (1866-1946); Matheson, P E (1859-1946)

[1915]

"From the Bulletin of May-June, 1915". At head of title: Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale. "A lecture given on April 10, 1915" -- p.[1].

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ESDERS, C F G

1914-1918

'Assault At Arms' programme and poster (nd); 1st, 9th and Eve of Empire Day Promenade Concert posters (nd); 10th Promenade Concert poster (18 July 1916); Manuscript recollections (nd); Typed transcrip...

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British documents on the origins of the war, 1898-1914 (v.6)

Gooch, G P (1873-1968); Temperley, H W V (1879-1939); Great Britain. Foreign Office

1927-1938

Contents: v.1. The end of British isolation. -- v.2. The Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Franco-British Entente. -- v.3. The testing of the Entente 1904-06. -- v.4. The Anglo-Russian Rapproachment, 19...

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British documents on the origins of the war, 1898-1914 (v.11)

Gooch, G P (1873-1968); Temperley, H W V (1879-1939); Great Britain. Foreign Office

1927-1938

Contents: v.1. The end of British isolation. -- v.2. The Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Franco-British Entente. -- v.3. The testing of the Entente 1904-06. -- v.4. The Anglo-Russian Rapproachment, 19...

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"The Bystander's" Fragments from France (v.[1])

Bairnsfather, Bruce (1887-1959)

[1916?-191-?]

[v.1]. "The Bystander's" Fragments from France -- v.2. More fragments from France -- v.3. Still more fragments from France -- v.4-6. Fragments from France -- v.8. Fragments away from France.

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The Military Service Act fully and clearly explained

Snowden, Philip Snowden Viscount (1864-1937)

[1916]

Cover title.

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