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Manuscript extract of letter from Capt Robert Dundas Whigham to Miss Dorothy Meredith, describing his landing with 'D' Company, 1 Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB), at Y Beach, Gallipoli, 25 Apr; Turkish counter attacks, 25-26 Apr; breaking of KOSB line, retreat to Y Beach with heavy casualties, and re-embarkation on RN battleship HMS GOLIATH, 26 Apr. With two sketches of KOSB positions. 10pp

Letter from Col Sir Neville (Francis Fitzgerald) Chamberlain, giving his account of the action in which Col William John Vousden won his Victoria Cross during the Second Afghan War. 4pp

Manuscript account [by Capt Marmion Carr Ferrers-Guy, 9 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers] of operations of his battalion with 34 Bde, 11 (Northern) Div, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 6-22 Aug 1915, including landing at A Beach, Suvla Bay and capture of Hill 10, 7 Aug 1915; offensive on W Hills, 21 Aug 1915. 7pp

Manuscript letter from Hamilton to Maj Gen Martin Andrew Dillon, Assistant Military Secretary, War Office, giving Hamilton's account of the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 27 Feb 1881. 9pp. With typed copy. 15pp

Typescript account by Hamilton of his receiving of the drums of 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders from German Gen Werner von Blomberg, Minister of War, at a ceremony at the War Ministry, Berlin, Germany. 5pp

A woman's work, memorials of Eliza Fletcher edited by Rev C A Salmond (J N Mackinlay, Glasgow, 1890). 1 vol

A slump in heroes (a Transvaal war drama without warriors) by Harold Bolce (Johannesburg Life Publishing Co, Johannesburg). 1 booklet, 32pp

A short history of Scottish regiments by Pte A W Keith, the Highland Light Infantry (J and G Innes, St Andrews, 1934). 28pp

A short account of canteens in the British army by the Hon Sir John William Fortescue (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1928). 80pp

A little book of life and death selected and arranged by Elizabeth Waterhouse, third edition (Methuen & Co, London, 1903). 1 vol

A little book of life and death selected and arranged by Elizabeth Waterhouse, ninth edition (Methuen & Co, London, 1906). With inscription by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, dedicated to her late sister Edyth Mary Kay Muir. 1 vol