Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1854-1856 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Letters from Anderson to his wife, Jane Anderson, 1854-1856, relating to his service as Surgeon Major with 13 Light Dragoons at the Siege of Sebastopol, Russia (Sevastopol, Ukraine), during the Crimean War, including reference to: the arrival of French ... »
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1815; qualified in medicine, c 1840; married Jane Wallis Bolton, 1853; served as Surgeon Major, 13 Light Dragoons, at the Siege of Sebastopol (Sevastopol), Crimean War, 1855; awarded honorary rank of Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals upon his ... »
Repository
Archival history
Placed in the Centre by the family, 2013
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language and script notes
PLEASE NOTE: the letters are cross-written (the letter paper was used twice by the writer, with the lines of text the second time at right angles to the first) so are difficult to read.
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.