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First World War Sources from the University of Dundee Archive’s collections

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Reference Kloc/033 Collection Kinnear Local Book Collection Date 1929 Description Typescript. The jute industry of Dundee, 1828 - 1928, by Oliver Graham. Especially:

IX. War and Post-War Industry, 1913-1928 X. Social Conditions, War and Post-War;Beginnings of Welfare Work, 1913-1928

Reference MS 2/1/1-53 Collection Lieutenant Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, R.F.C. and R.A.F. Date 1988-2000 Description Correspondence of Patrick W. Anderson with archivists, publishers, and librarians

relating to, Lt Patrick Wright Anderson, student of University College, Dundee, and Lieutenant in the Black Watch. Includes newspaper cuttings, photographs and other relevant items.

Reference MS 2/1/1 Collection Lieutenant Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, R.F.C. and R.A.F. Date 1917 Description Photograph of Patrick Wright Anderson in Black Watch uniform. In Letter of 13

August 1988

Reference MS 2/1/15 Collection Lieutenant Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, R.F.C. and R.A.F. Date 1914-1915 Description Photograph of officers at Bristol. In Letter of 10 August 1989

Reference MS 2/1/31 Collection Lieutenant Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, R.F.C. and R.A.F. Date 1995 Description ‘Lt P.W. Anderson, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), RFC & RAF’ by Patrick W.

Anderson. Article from Cross and Cockade International Journal: The First World War Aviation Historical Society. Vol. 26 No. 4 1995. In Letter of 5 January 1996

Reference MS 2/1/47 Collection Lieutenant Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, R.F.C. and R.A.F. Date 1996-1997 Description ‘Patrick Wright Anderson, Lt, Black Watch, R.F.C., R.A.F.’ by Patrick W. Anderson.

Article from Dispatch: The Journal of the Scottish Military Historical Society. No. 142, 1996. ‘Call to Arms: Lieutenant Patrick W. Anderson, Black Watch, RFC and RAF’ by Patrick W. Anderson. Article from The Bulletin of the Military Historical Society. Volume 47, No. 187, February 1997. In Letter of 7 June 1997

Reference MS 2/1/51 Collection Lieutenant Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, R.F.C. and R.A.F. Date 1999 Description ‘A Forfarshire Soldier of the Great War: Lt P.W. Anderson, Black Watch (RHR), RFC &

RAF’ by Patrick Anderson. Printed in Forfar and District Historical Society, Journal. Number 10, 1999. In Letter of 16 November 1999


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Reference MS 2/2/1-3 Collection Lieutenant Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, R.F.C. and R.A.F. Date 2000-2002 Description 3 Loose Articles: ‘My Uncle: Lt. P. W. Anderson, Black Watch, RFC and RAF.’ Article by

Patrick W. Anderson. Printed in the North East Scotland Family History Society Journal No.75, May 2000.’Brave Men of the North-east of Scotland.’ Printed in the North East Scotland Family History Society Journal, No.77, November 2000.’Lt. Patrick Wright Anderson, Black Watch, R.F.C. and R.A.F.’ Article by Patrick W. Anderson. Printed in the Kent Family History Society Journal, Vol 10. No. 2, March 2002.

Reference MS 3/2/1-8 Collection S.F. Price Collection Date 1803-1971 Description Index of Drawings and Photos of Ships Built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering

Company Ltd. Includes warships

Reference MS 11/1/1 - MS 11/1/68 Collection Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd, Linen & Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee. Date 1806 - 1973 Description Financial records, including private and general ledgers, balance books and journals.

Reference MS 11/2/1 - MS 11/2/4 Collection Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd, Linen & Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee Date 1873 - 1957 Description Minute books and letter books.

Reference MS 11/3/1 - MS 11/3/13 Collection Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd, Linen & Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee Date 1841 - 1959 Description Wages and production books.

Reference MS 11/4/3 - MS 11/4/39 Collection Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd, Linen & Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee Date 1898 - 1971 Description Contract, order books, tenders and specifications. Includes Admiralty contracts. See

handbook of descriptive lists for details.

Reference MS 11/5/13 Collection Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd, Linen & Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee Date 1907 - 1926 Description Fire Brigade Reports; Dens Works.

Reference MS 11/5/25 Collection Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd, Linen & Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee Date 1919-1925 Description Small notebook; factory, disabled soldiers. Gives nature of disablement, occupation

and dates of entering and leaving employment.

Reference MS 12 Collection Julius Salomon & Company, Merchants, Dundee.


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Date 1880-1945 Description Correspondence, invoices, sales books, reports, order and contract books, stock

books, journals, accounts, ledgers.

Reference UR-SF 51/1(2) Collection Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900 - 1980) Papers Date 1918 Description Letter. 5 May 1918. James Laver, Romford. Acknowledges Knox's letter giving him the

news requested. Gives details about his army training in Y Company (Artists' Rifles) Officer Cadet Battalion.

Reference UR-SF 51/1(3) Collection Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900 - 1980) Papers Date 1918 Description Letter. 15 September 1918. James Laver, Romford. Gives details about army life.

Reference UR-SF 51/1(6) Collection Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900 - 1980) Papers Date 1919 Description Letter. 26 February. James Laver, St. Pol. Wishes Knox luck in his efforts to obtain a

scholarship. Says that he is to go to the Rhine for a year and that at present he is guarding supply trains.

Reference UR-SF 51/1(7) Collection Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900 - 1980) Papers Date 1919 Description Letter. 6 July 1919. James Laver, 333 P.O.W. Company, British Troops in France.

Refers to books he has been reading and comments generally on how he has been passing his time.

Reference MS 15/41/4 Collection Miscellaneous Manuscripts Date 1828 - 1967 Description William Halley & Sons Ltd. Photocopy of notes on documents and history of the firm

and on jute industry in Dundee by J. R. L. Halley, includes plans, elevations (1828 - 1967) and inventories of contents of mills (1835 - 1921).

Reference MS 164/1 Collection Miscellaneous Manuscripts Date 1977 Description Some Recollections of University and Early Days in Practice, 1912 - 1920. Address

given by Margaret Campbell to the Lindsay Club at the Annual Conference of the British Dental Association, 1 July 1977. Describes her career as Medical Student and house surgeon.

Reference MS 15/132 Collection Miscellaneous Manuscripts Date N.D. Description Lecture entitled ‘Radium’ written by an unidentified author. Gives biographical

details about Marie Curie from her birth in 1867 up to 1904. Refers briefly to her work in the First World War. [Typescript].


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Reference MS 15/284 Collection Miscellaneous Manuscripts Date 1914-1918 Description Forfar Academy Roll of Honour: The Great War. Compiled by Andrew Nicoll.

Reference MS 17/8/1 Collection Thornton Collection: Miscellaneous Property Records Date 1915-1916 Description Papers and correspondence relating to the wartime occupation of Bannatyne Home

of Rest by the Royal Field Artillery.

Reference MS 28 Collection Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co., Ltd Date 1826 - 1937 Description Miscellaneous business records, booklets, photographs and drawings. May include

relevant information.

Reference MS 38/1/2 Collection Herbert Watt Torrance, Medical Missionary (1892 - 1977) Date 1916-1918 Description Photographs taken during the First World War, some by Dr H.W. Torrance during his

service in France and Serbia. Identified individuals include Sergeant Alexander, Major Anderson, Private Sturdy, Dr Herbert Watt Torrance, Mr Tom & Maggie Torrance and Major Williams. Many photographs have detailed notes on the reverse.

Reference MS 38/7 Collection Herbert Watt Torrance, Medical Missionary (1892 - 1977) Date 1916 Description Photographs, many relating to Herbert Watt Torrance's war service in Salonika.

Reference MS 42 Collection Giddings And Lewis - Fraser, Engineers, Arbroath. Date 1863 - 1969 Description Miscellaneous business records, maps, plans & technical drawings. May include


Reference MS 43 Collection Alexander Shanks, Engineers, Arbroath Date 1891 - 1965 Description Miscellaneous business records. May include relevant information

Reference MS 44 Collection James Allison & Sons (Sailmakers) Ltd, Dundee Date 1874 - 1964 Description Miscellaneous business records. May include relevant information

Reference MS 45/3/3 Collection Lewis C. Grant, Engineers, Dysart. Date 1914 - 1915


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Description Letter book: ‘C[harles] E. D[ouglas]'s Eastern Tour, No. II. ‘ 9 copy letters, giving vivid description of effects of war with Germany in Indo-China.

Reference MS 49 Collection Hugh Stannus Stannus (1877 - 1957) Specialist in Tropical Medicine Date c 1905 - 1918 Description May include relevant photographs. See descriptive list for King's African Rifles.

Reference MS 50/14 (15) Collection Sir Robert Robertson (1869 - 1949) Government Chemist and Explosives Expert. Date 1921 Description War development of explosives, by Robert Robertson. A paper read at a weekly

meeting of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 6 May.

Reference MS 50/2 (32) Collection Sir Robert Robertson (1869 - 1949) Government Chemist and Explosives Expert. Date 1922 Description Some achievements of chemical industry during the war in this country and in France

by William MacNab. Reprinted from the Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, 15 December, 1922, vol. XLI, no. 23.

Reference MS 50/17 (43/2) Collection Sir Robert Robertson (1869 - 1949) Government Chemist and Explosives Expert. Date 1920 Description 25 January, 1920. R.C. Farmer to Sir Robert Robertson. Encloses an outline of his

work at the Department of Explosives Supply from 1915 - 1918. Includes testimonial n.d. (Two copies).

Reference MS 53 Collection William C. Scott, Wool Merchants and Skinners, Dundee Date 1845-1973 Description Miscellaneous business records. May include relevant information

Reference MS 55 Collection Dr Alexander Scott, F.R.S. (1853 - 1947) Date 1916 Description Letter. H.E. Armstrong, London to Scott. He fears that ‘agitation may be extended to

the [? Chemical] Society and expulsion of all Germans be advocated.’

Reference MS 57 Collection Olgivie, Cowan and Co., Solicitors, Dundee. Date 19th - 20th Century Description Miscellaneous personal, legal and business records. May include relevant

information.

Reference MS 59 Collection Tay Whale Fishing Company, Dundee. Date 1845 - 1922 Description Minute books, whaling summaries and statistics, miscellaneous papers. May include



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Reference MS 60 Collection Caird (Dundee) Ltd, Jute Manufacturers, Dundee. Date 1910 - 1957 Description Miscellaneous business records and photographs. May include relevant information.

Reference Collection

MS 61/1/3/2/3British Medical Association, Dundee Branch.

Date 1914 Description Copy letter, 8 October 1914, R.C. Buist to the Chairman, Territorial Association,

Dundee. Concerns the formation of the Third Highland Field Ambulance Unit and the continuation of civilian practice.



Date 1914 Description Copy letters, October, Jno. Vair and G.O. Bourke. Recommend the continuation of

civilian practice while stationed in Dundee.



Date 1917 Description Printed letter, February, R.C. Buist. Informs members of a resolution of the branch

concerning the examination of munition workers and a report on the dependants of soldiers and sailors.

Reference Collection Date Description

MS 61/1/3/2/18-29British Medical Association, Dundee Branch. 1917 - 1918 Mainly letters dealing with medical examination and employment of female munitions workers.



Date 1919 Description Letter, 9 September, J. Mackenzie, St Andrews, to Dr Buist. Agrees to give a paper on

‘The Soldier's Heart and War Neuroses. A Study in Symptomatology. ‘


MS 61/1/4/40British Medical Association, Dundee Branch 27 April 1915 Receipt for £50 2s 6d for the Belgian doctors and pharmacists fund.


MS 61/1/4 (41) British Medical Association, Dundee Branch

Date 1915 Description Letter, 29 November, W.J. Dewar, Arbroath, to Dr Buist. Agrees to serve on war

committee.



Date 1915


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Description Letter, 30 November, P. Adam, Brechin, to Dr Buist. Agrees to serve on war committee.



Date 1919 Description Letter, 8 January, W. Kinnear, Dundee, to Dr Buist. Requests assistance in securing

the demobilization of his son, Captain John Kinnear. R.A.M.C.



Date 1919 Description Letter, 17 January, T.H. Charam, Edinburgh, to Dr Buist. Concerns nominations for

priority demobilization of medical officers and refers to Captain Kinnear.


MS 61/1/4 (58) British Medical Association, Dundee Branch.

Date 1919 Description Letter, 13 January, J. Martin Smith to Dr Buist. Requests assistance with

demobilization for Whyte, Miller and himself. [2pp].

Reference MS 66/I-XII Collection Sidlaw Industries [and related companies, including II Cox Brothers, IV J. & A.D.

Grimond, VI Harry Walker & Sons] Date [1914-1918] Description Various company records covering the First World War period, which may contain


Reference MS 66/II/2/5 Collection Cox Brothers, Jute Spinners and Manufactures, Dundee Date 1914 Description Letter book. p. 749: The house known as ‘The School’ to be used as hospital.

Reference MS 66/II/10/33 Collection Cox Brothers Ltd Date 1914 - 1915 Description Communications from the War Office instructing the firm to place at the disposal of

the War Office such of their output as was required.

Reference MS 66/II/10/38 Collection Cox Brothers Ltd Date 1914 - 1918 Description Miscellaneous business correspondence in 2 bundles mainly between and relating to

the subsidiary offices of Cox Brothers Ltd.in Dundee, Kidderminster, London, Manchester, Germany and India. The subjects dealt with include: income tax, investments held by the company and trusts of members of the Cox Family. Includes correspondence relating to the affairs of the firm during the 1914 - 1918 period and in particular to Cox Brothers Ltd. participation in the war effort.

Reference MS 69 Collection Dundee Stock Exchange Association.


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Date 1876 - 1964 Description Miscellaneous business records. May include relevant information.

Reference MS 71 Collection Buist Spinning Co. Ltd, Dundee. Date 1900 - 1979 Description Minute books, registers of members, financial papers, wages records, stock books

and miscellaneous records.

Reference MS 71/3/1 Collection Buist Spinning Co. Ltd, Dundee. Date 1897 - 1945 Description Includes official works notices to employees relating to maintenance of working

during first and second world wars.

Reference MS 72 Collection Richard Hayward & Sons Ltd, Canvas & Twine Manufacturers & Merchants, Merriot,

Somerset. Date 1804 - 1972 Description Miscellaneous business records. May include relevant information

Reference MS 73 Collection John P. Ingram, Shipping Correspondent of the Dundee Courier. Date 1767 - 1980 Description Shipping records. May include relevant information.

Reference MS 74 Collection Craik Ltd, Linen & Jute Merchants and Manufacturers, Forfar. Date 1877 - 1981 Description Minute books, letter books, shareholding records, financial records, stock books,

production records and microfilm of company files and documents. May include relevant information.


MS 82/6Wilson Family Papers 1916-1919 Includes letters, diary and papers of James Blackburn Wilson relating to his service with the French Red Cross and the British Army during and immediately after World War 1. Correspondence is to Wilson's family in Alva and describes his daily life and work, together with details of the areas in which he is based. He also gives some descriptions of military action. Also includes a transcript in diary form of part of the correspondence and framed testimonials from Section Sanitaire Anglaise No.2 and from the British Committee of the French Red Cross.

Reference MS 82/4/7 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1914-1917 Description Letters relating to World War I. [9] The letters refer mainly to John Blackburn

Wilson's ambulance work with the French Red Cross, with some description of shelling by the Germans. These include: (6) Letter, 28 June, 1916. ‘There is no personal danger so you don't need to think about that, but in my letter home today I


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refrained from mentioning the facts, as Mother is so dreadfully imaginative.’ (2) Letter, 20 October, 1915. Mentions the Zeppelin and bomb blasts, ‘There is now a great lack of confidence in the Govt and the general impression now seems to be that they have blundered horribly in the conduct of the war.’


MS 82/4/23 Wilson Family Papers 1916-1917 War letters from A.H.F [orrest] and Mill soldiers. [33] Letters from Wilson Brothers employees serving in World War I, mainly in France and England.

Reference MS 82/4/26 (86) Collection Wilson Family Papers Date c1915 Description Alexander Steven Wilson's Musketry instructions: 1st Battalion Clackmannanshire

Volunteer Regiment.

Reference MS 82/4/26 (87-89) Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1915-1917 Description Three published booklets of aspects of company drill, belonging to Alexander Steven

Wilson.

Reference MS 82/4/26 (90-91) Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1916-1917 Description Items belonging to Alexander Steven Wilson: (90) Military service exemption

certificate, 1916; (91) National Service volunteer registration card, 1917.

Reference MS 82/4/26 (93) Collection Wilson Family Papers Date c1917 Description Alexander Steven Wilson's notebook with descriptions of rifle, fine discipline training

etc.

Reference MS 82/5/3 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1914-1919 Description Papers relating to Helen Primrose Wilson's service as a nurse with the Military

Massage Service. [Items removed from photograph album MS 82/9/5]. These include: letter relating to the nursing situation in France, programmes for variety performances, letters and poems from soldiers, Army Council instructions regarding rates of pay and conditions of service, camp pass.

Reference MS 82/6/1(12) Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1916-1919 Description Note concerning military service of James Blackburn Wilson.

Reference MS 82/6/1 (13-16) Collection Wilson Family Papers


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Date 1916-1917 Description Miscellanea originally with photograph album [MS 82/9/3]. Related to Wilson's

medical and military service. Include: Menu cards, revue programme, letter from British Committee of the French Red Cross.

Reference MS 82/9/4 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1916-1917 Description Miscellaneous photographs and picture postcards, mainly relating to James

Blackburn Wilson's period of service with the French Red Cross, Section Sanitaire Anglaise No.2.

Reference MS 82/9/5 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1916-1918 Description Album of photographs taken during Helen Primrose Wilson's period of duty as a

nurse (Military Massage Service) during the First World War. Mainly of staff and patients, most of whom were soldiers.

Reference MS 82/9/6 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1916-1918 Description Loose photographs originally with album MS 82/9/5. c1916-1918


MS 82/6/9 (407) Wilson Family Papers 3 January 1919 Private J.G. Pottinger, 8th Black Watch, to James Blackburn Wilson. Gives news of himself and the 8th Battalion and hopes for Wilson's recovery.


MS 82/6/9 (439) Wilson Family Papers 12 February 1919 ‘Rochan’ (Ronald Preston), to ‘My Dear Old Wullie’ (James Blackburn Wilson). Gives news of demobilization.


MS 82/6/9 (461-470) Wilson Family Papers April 1917-January 1919. Letters [9] to ‘My Dear Old Wullie’ (James Blackburn Wilson) from ‘Rochan’ (Ronald Preston) serving with Section Sanitaire Anglaise No.2, or from Weybridge. Mainly concerns news of himself and of Section Sanitaire Anglaise No.2.

Reference MS 82/P5 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date 1915 Description Ordnance Survey map of The Western Theatre of War (France and Belgium). Scale:

1in. to 16.78 miles [1:1,000,000]. 57 x 58 cm.

Reference MS 82/P6 Collection Wilson Family Papers


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Date 1916 Description War Office map of Amiens area of France. Scale: 1in. to 1.58 miles [1:100,000]. 74 x

58 cm.

Reference MS 82/P10 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date c1916-1917 Description Map of Lorraine with inserts of Verdun, shows main communications - rail, road and

canal. [with additional (laser) copy of part [shelved in map room] Scale approx. 1 inch to 5 km. [1:200,000]. 510 x 380 mm.

Reference MS 82/P12 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date c1916-1917 Description Map showing VERDUN, France, and area immediately to north, highlighting position

of fortresses (photocopy: on reverse of MS 82 P/11). Scale approx. 1 inch to 5 km. [1:200,000]. 510 x 380 mm.

Reference MS 82/P14 Collection Wilson Family Papers Date [1918] Description Contoured map of Anglo-French-American Front in France and Belgium as at 1 July

1916 and 1 October 1918. Surveyor: George Philip & Son Ltd. Scale: 1in. to 5 miles [1:316,800]. 79x 89 cm.

Reference MS 82/WB/13/1 (9) Collection Wilson Bros (Alva) Ltd, Woollen Manufacturers Date 1919 Description Wilson Brothers, programme, Victory Special.

Reference MS 83 Collection The Jute Importers Association. Date 1892 - 1975 Description Minute books, financial records, correspondence and papers relating to the

importation of jute to Dundee. Also includes minute books of the Jute Importers Mutual Protection Association. Records within relevant covering dates indicate effects of war on various aspects of the jute industry e.g. production, shipments.

Reference MS 84 Collection Association of Jute Spinners and Manufacturers. Date 1918 - 1982 Description Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, work study papers, relating to

the employers' association for the jute industry; includes records relating to the Association of European Jute Industries. Annual reports of the relevant years indicate effects of the war upon the jute industry.

Reference MS 85 Collection The Made-Up Textiles Association. Date 1913 - 1975 Description Minute books, financial records and correspondence relating to the employers'

association for the canvas goods & made-up textiles trade. See relevant years for


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effects of war upon the industry.

Reference MS 86/I Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Samnuggur Jute Factory Co., Ltd Date 1874-1977 Description Directors’ minute books, shareholding records, directors' reports and accounts,

memoranda & articles of association, employees’ records, miscellaneous records. Also technical drawings and plans.

Reference MS 86/II Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Victoria Jute Factory Co. Ltd Date 1883-1979 Description Directors' minute books, balance sheets/directors' reports and accounts, memoranda

and articles of association.

Reference MS 86/III Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Titaghur Jute Factory Co. Ltd Date 1878-1982 Description Directors' minute books, shareholding records, directors' reports and accounts,

memoranda and articles of association, employees’ records, order books, miscellaneous records. Technical drawings and plans (numerical). Arranged chronologically.

Reference MS 86/IV Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Angus Company Ltd Date 1913-1977 Description Annual reports, memoranda and articles of association.

Reference MS 86/V Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Thomas Duff & Company Ltd Date 1865-1977 Description Directors' minute books, employees records, balance sheets, memoranda and

articles of association, miscellaneous records and plans, photographs.

Reference MS 86/VI Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Hardie And Smith Ltd Date 1859-1987 Description Directors' minute books, balance sheets, memoranda and articles of association,

order books, miscellaneous records.

Reference MS 86/VII Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Dundee Brattice Cloth And Waterproofing Co.

Ltd Date 1914-1983 Description Directors' minute books, shareholding records, balance sheets/directors' reports and

accounts, memoranda and articles of association.

Reference MS 86/VIII Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Victoria Road Calendering Co., Dundee. Date 1890-1967 Description Ledgers, journals, price lists (including other Dundee calenders).


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Reference MS 86/X Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Jaffe Brothers & Co. (Dundee) Ltd, Linen and

Yarn. Date 1909-1959 Description Ledger and journal. Reference MS 86/XI Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Cargill & Co. Ltd Date 1895-1976 Description Directors' minute books, shareholding records, papers relating to apprentices. Reference MS 86/XIII Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] James Stiven Ltd Date 1910-1944 Description Minute books. Reference MS 86/XVI Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] E. Carr & Sons Ltd Date 1918 Description Annual accounts. Reference MS 86/XVII Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Joseph Grave & Co. Ltd Date 1911-1930 Description Balance sheets and accounts. Reference MS 86/XVIII Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] Hillbank Bag Factory. Date 1916-1922 Description Balance sheets and accounts. Reference MS 86/XIX/5/3 Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] A.S. Henry & Co. (Dundee) Ltd Date 1916 Description British Government - War Department, Dundee: audited accounts for government

work carried out by the company. Includes statement showing position of sand bags shipped direct to France from Dundee prior to October 1916.

Reference MS 86/XIX/8/4 Collection [A. & S. Henry & Co Ltd, Manchester:] A.S. Henry & Co. (Dundee) Ltd Date N. d. Description Booklet on Jute Sand Bags for Government A.R.P. purposes. Reference MS 86/XX Collection A.& S. HENRY & CO. LTD Date 1858-1970 Description Directors' reports, memoranda and articles of association, miscellaneous papers. Reference MS 86/XXI Collection A.& S. Henry & Co. Ltd, Manchester & A.& S. Henry & Co. (Dundee) Ltd.: United


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Kingdom Jute Goods Association Ltd. Date 1909-1948. Description Memoranda and articles of association. Reference MS 88/1 Collection Joseph Johnston Lee, Journalist and Poet (1876 - 1949) Date 1917-1920 Description Journals kept by Lee while a prisoner of war in German camps at Karlsruhe and

Beeskow. Also the bound manuscript of Lee's book ‘A Captive At Carlsruhe’ and a copy of the published work.

Reference MS 88/2/8 (487A) Collection Joseph Johnston Lee, Journalist and Poet (1876 - 1949) Date Early first world war Description Photograph on mount of Joseph Lee in battledress. Reference MS 88/3/5 Collection Joseph Johnston Lee, Journalist and Poet (1876 - 1949) Date 1917 & 1918 Description ‘A Little Letter to a Little Girl from the Firing Line’ Joseph Lee to ‘Crissie’ [niece,

Christina Blair Blackwood], 17 November 1917. Includes sketches. [10pp]. [Photocopy]. Also letter, 27 Feb. 1918, from Lee to niece. [1pp]. [Photocopy].

Reference MS 88/3/6 Collection Joseph Johnston Lee, Journalist and Poet (1876 - 1949) Date 1917 Description Card [Photocopy] giving message for telegram from Joseph Lee to H. Lee, Dundee.

[Brother, Herman Lee]. 15 December 1917. Says he is a war prisoner in Karlsruhe, Germany. Front of card [Photocopy] addressed to Red Cross Society, Geneva.

Reference MS 88/8/6 Collection Joseph Johnston Lee, Journalist and Poet (1876 - 1949) Date N. D. Description Two typescript copies of poem ‘German Prisoners’ by Joseph Lee, Sergt, The Black

Watch. Reference MS 93/I/2/3 Collection D.J. MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee Date 1892-1984 Description General Register ‘M.M.37’. A register of male employees over 16 years of age.

(Originally kept to comply with the Munitions of War Act 1915. Continued to be used as a general register after World War I.)

Reference MS 93/I/2/3 (1-3) Collection D.J. MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee Date 1916 Description (1) Letter from Ministry of Munitions of War requiring D.J. MacDonald Ltd to keep a

register of male employees aged 16 and over. c1916. (2) Letter from the Ministry of Munitions of War asking for the return of employees War Service Badges and Certificates. Also asks for details of men employed at 1/12/1916 as in register M.M.37. (3) Loose sheets of form M.M.37 with completed entries.


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Reference MS 93/I/5 Collection D.J. MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee Date 1894-1943 Description Job books, order books Reference MS 93/I/9 (122-126) Collection D.J. MacDonald Ltd, Engineers, Dundee Date [1914-1917] Description (122) Group of [works?] personnel photographed in army and naval uniforms, N.d.

(123) Group of Royal Flying corps personnel photographed in front of aeroplanes and hangers, N.d. (124) [Member of MacDonald family] pictured in Royal Flying Corps Uniform, [MacDonald (David)], N.d. (125) Group of army (Royal Artillery) personnel (officers and other ranks) photographed in front of shed (‘gun shed and mobilization equipment VI Brigade H. Battery’). [MacDonald (David)], N.d. (126) Group of army (Royal Artillery) officers photographed in front of shed (‘gun shed and mobilization equipment VI Brigade H. Battery’). [MacDonald (David)] n.d. [1917].

Reference MS 94 Collection Thomas C. Keay Ltd Date 1910 - 1975 Description Shareholding and company records, private ledgers, company accounts,

photographs. May include relevant information. Reference MS 95 Collection Thomson, Shepherd & Co. Ltd, Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Dundee. Date 1852 - 1986 Description Minute books, shareholding records, balance sheets and accounts, private ledgers,

stock books, private ledgers, stock books, newspaper cuttings book. May include relevant information.

Reference MS 98 Collection H. & A. Scott, Textile Manufacturers, Dundee. Date 1880 - 1985 Description Ledgers, jute purchases, wages book. May include relevant information. Reference MS 100/I Collection Don & Low (Holdings) Ltd and related companies. Date [1914-1918] Description Various company records covering the First World War period, which may contain

relevant information. Reference MS 100/II Collection The Dundee Calendaring Co., Ltd. Date 1898-1959 Description Various company records covering the First World War period, which may contain

relevant information. Reference MS 100/V Collection Alexander Henderson & Sons Ltd., Spinners Date 1892-1933


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Description Letter book, private ledger and miscellaneous papers of Alexander Henderson & Sons Ltd.

Reference MS 103/3/3 Collection Kinnear Collection Date 1899-1920 Description Domestic Economy Committee Minute Book relating to the Records of YWCA, 33

[South] Tay Street, Dundee. May include relevant information. Reference MS 105/X/9 Collection Shiell & Small Collection Date Sep 1915 - Jan 1916 Description Dundee and District Armaments Committee. Letter Book No 2 (Wet copy). Reference MS 106/1/1(1) Collection First World War Collection Date April 1914-September 1915 Description Correspondence of Private J. Braid, Royal Highlanders, to his family in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

[J. Braid was killed in action 25 September 1915 on the first day of the Battle of Loos.] The correspondence covers Jim’s time spent training in Aldershot and in Ross-shire and abroad at war in France. The contents of the letters concern family matters, expressions of thanks for parcels received, and some detail of life as a soldier, both during peacetime and at war. Many letters refer to friends from Kirkcaldy and to colleagues in the army.

Reference MS 106/1/1(2) Collection First World War Collection Date 1915 Description Correspondence from the Braid family to Jim whilst at war, one letter written 5

October 1915 [10 days after Jim had been killed] reads, ‘are there anything wrong with you that you are not able to write were you in that Battle as I see your Regt was in it...cant you send a P. C’

Reference MS 106/1/1(3) Collection First World War Collection Date 1915-1917 Description Miscellaneous correspondence from colleagues and official notices to the Braid

family regarding the death of Jim. Includes: Letter, 3 October 1915, from Private David Vallance, A Company, 1st. Battalion, Black Watch, enclosing Jim’s pay book [not in collection]. Letter, 13 October 1915, to Peter Braid [Father of Jim] from Henry A. Williamson of Churchmount, Lochee, to inform the family of Jim’s inclusion in the roll of honour in Victoria Road Church. Notice, signed ‘Kitchener’, expressing sympathy on behalf of His Majesty The King and The Queen, n.d. Official notification from the Infantry Record Office in Perth of the death of 2656 Pte. J. Braid of the Royal Highlanders Regiment on 25 September 1915. 15 October 1915. Notice from the War Office authorising payment of 7 pounds, 7 shillings and 4 pence from J. Braid’s account issued to Ellen Braid [Mother of Jim] in accordance with the deceased’s will ‘as sole legatee’. 23 February 1916. Letter, 17 February 1917, from the Director of Graves Registration and Enquiries, War Office, to Peter Braid, informing him that the grave of Jim Braid had not yet been registered at that office.


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Reference MS 106/1/1(4) Collection First World War Collection Date n.d. Description ‘The Small Book’ of James Braid, Royal Highlanders, No. 2656. The book contains

information regarding life as a soldier. As well as personal information of the owner, sections include ‘Points to be observed when on guard’, ‘How to prevent sore feet’, identification of Officers’ Badges of Rank, ‘Instructions for cleaning the rifle and carbine’, ‘Notes on field cooking’ and ‘Soldiers’ Wills’.

Reference MS 106/1/2 Collection First World War Collection Date n.d. Description Commemorative scroll, in memory of Private John Blyth, Royal Highlanders. Reference MS 106/1/3 Collection First World War Collection Date 1915 Description Telegraphs concerning Captain Patrick C. Duncan, wounded in action. Reference MS 106/1/4 Collection First World War Collection Date 1919 Description Documents of Lt/Cpl David Mason, 90th Company, Royal Engineers, including some

relating to demobilization. Reference MS 106/1/5 Collection First World War Collection Date 1918 Description Wire from 52nd Division regarding armistice. Reference MS 106/1/6 Collection First World War Collection Date 1993 Description ‘War poetry’ - extract from Guardian Education: British Poets of the First World War. Reference MS 106/1/7 Collection First World War Collection Date 1918 Description The Glasgow Herald. Armistice Day. Reference MS 106/1/8 Collection First World War Collection Date 1914 Description ‘The Western Union Telegraph-Cable System’ Diary. Unused. Reference MS 106/1/9 Collection First World War Collection Date 1915-1919 Description Letters (and other miscellaneous material) from Captain Patrick Duncan to his family

in West Ferry, covering his time as an officer in the Black Watch and charting his loss


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of enthusiasm for fighting and pessimism for human nature. Reference MS 106/1/10 Collection First World War Collection Date 1980 Description A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Great War held in the Library of the University

of Dundee, compiled by H. Murdoch, H. Spear and D. Valentine. Blackness Press, Dundee, 1980.

Reference MS 106/2 Collection First World War Collection Date 1915 Description Series of letters from Pt William Cuthill to his parents, all from France and written in

1915, the year of his death. Also includes various official communications regarding his death and posthumous decoration.

Reference MS 106/10 (1) Collection First World War Collection Date 1917 Description Photograph of Vimy Bridge - Canadian Frontline. Reference MS 106/10 (2) Collection First World War Collection Date 1918 Description Photograph: ‘La Bertha de Chuignes’ - 380mm gun captured by 3rd Int. Battalion

Australian Division...destined to bombard Amiens. Reference MS 112/1/5 Collection James Thomson (c1852- 1927), City Engineer, City Architect and Housing Director,

Dundee. Date 16 March 1917 Description ‘Report to the Housing and Town Planning Committee of the Dundee Town Council

on preparation for work after the termination of the war and proposed housing schemes’. Stirling Park, Springhill, and Logie schemes. Includes financial details, and maps and plans of proposed buildings.

Reference MS 141/2/1/2 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date c1917 Description Photograph of sailors on HMS Mary Rose Reference MS 141/4/8 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date c 1914 Description Postcard of a poem about war Reference MS 141/4/11 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date c 1915 Description Newspaper cutting of a poem entitled 'A Letter Frae Hame written in the Trenches'

by Piper John McLellan


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Reference MS 141/5/1 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date 1902-17 Description Naval Service Record of George Turner Paton Reference MS 141/5/2 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date 19 Oct 1917 Description Letter from the Admiralty informing Mary Paton of her husband George's death on

board HMS Mary Rose Reference MS 141/5/3 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date 1917 Description Newspaper Clippings about the sinking of HMS Mary Rose and George Paton Reference MS 141/5/4 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date c 1917 Description Commemorative scroll Reference MS 141/5/5 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date c 1917 Description Sympathy letter [2 copies] Reference MS 141/5/6 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date 27 Feb 1918 Description Certificate of the Inspector of Seamen's Wills with regard to the effects of the late

George Turner Paton Reference MS 141/11/5 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date Dec 1914 Description Christmas Gift from Princess Mary presented to servicemen Embossed brass box with

Card with photo of Princess Mary Reference MS 141/4/14 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date [c 1918] Description Blue book cover with writing inside including service details of Bertie Paton [Snr],

Joseph Paton, Andrew Crowlie and Dr Robert Crowlie Reference MS 141/11/6-9 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date c 1914-1918 Description 4 Great War Medals. 1914-15 Star medal awarded to George Turner Paton; British

War Medal awarded to W E Weasenham; British War Medal awarded to George Turner Paton, with wrong ribbon; Victory Medal awarded to George Turner Paton,


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with wrong ribbon Reference MS 141/11/11 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date c 1914-1918 Description Royal Engineers Badge Reference MS 141/11/12 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date 1902-1917 Description 3 Royal Navy cap bands. HMS Conquest, HMS Vulcan and HMS Forte Reference MS 141/11/13 Collection Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee Date c 1917 Description Medallion Reference MS 148 /4/1 Collection Papers of the Gauldie Family Date 13 December 1914 – 1 July 1919 Description Letters between Kenneth Gauldie and his family in Dundee, during and telling of his

time in the First World War. Includes a portrait photograph of Gauldie in his uniform and a note from Winston S. Churchill for his ‘gallant and distinguished services’ (12 items).

Reference MS 152 Collection C.A. White papers Date c 1930 Description ‘The 7th Submarine Flotilla in Peace and War: White, His Testament’. Typescript

account of experiences of C.A. White, Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class, during the First World War. Included are various recollections of Dundee before and during the First World War.

Reference MS 156/2 Collection L.P. Michie, Chemist, Dundee. Date 1907 - 1920 Description Cash book Reference MS 160/3 Collection Scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings apparently compiled by Jamie Neish. Date 1914 - 1917 Description Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. Relates to the First World War, particularly the

action of the Gordon Highlanders. Includes some reference to the Neish family. Reference MS 164/2 Collection Margaret Menzies Campbell Date 1977 Description The First World War: A House Surgeon Remembers. Address given by Margaret

Menzies Campbell to the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, 22 October 1977. Describes her work in Darlington Royal Infirmary.


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Reference MS 190 Collection Sir Charles Dixon, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., O.B.E. Date 1969 Description Memoirs of Sir Charles Dixon, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., O.B.E., with a foreword by Sir Harry

Batterbee, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. Chapter 3 is concerned with war work, relating to control of imports & exports, shipping, trading with the enemy etc. Also includes a number of wartime recollections & anecdotes.

Reference MS 196 Collection G.C. Taylor and Son, Sail and Rope Makers, Jamaica Works, Dundee. Date First World War period Description Short History of G.C. Taylor and Son, Sail and Rope Makers, Jamaica Works, Dundee,

referring to effects of the War on the firm.

Reference MS 214/2

Collection Chalmers Family

Date 13 April, 1918

Description Letter, Jeanfield (?), Dundee, from Jeannie Stalker to Maggie(?), concerning the death in France due to ‘wounds’ of ‘Dan’, probably Stalker's son.

Reference MS 256

Collection Monifieth Red Cross Hospital

Date c1914

Description World War One Autograph Album

Reference Recs A/21-25

Collection University College & Queen's College Dundee

Date 1914-1919

Description University of St Andrews: Minutes of University Court.

Reference Recs A/225/1(25)


Date N.d.

Description University College, Dundee. Register of attendance for military training by members of staff



Date 5 December 1916

Description Letter, Alexander P. Stevenson, [Bookbinder], Dundee to J.E.A. Steggall. Indicates ‘the last three years have taken the spirit out of me’. Comments that the war ‘has so told upon business that life is hardly worth living’. His business is nearly ruined.

Reference Recs A/225/6/4 (12)



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Date 1915

Description Dundee and District Volunteer Force. Includes: (a) Constitution; (b) Recruitment notice; (c) Enrolment Form.

Reference Recs A/225/6/4 (13)


Date 1915

Description University of St. Andrews. (a) Faculty of Arts. Privileges approved by the Senatus for students who have jointed or may join any of H.M. Services during the War. 1915. (Printed). (b) Faculty of Science. Privileges as for science students. (Printed).

Reference Recs A/270/11


Date 1938

Description Armistices Day Committee: report list of names of the fallen on College War Memorial with related correspondence.

Reference Recs A/325/8 (5)


Date 1915

Description ‘National Service. Employer's Form of Protest’.



Date 1917

Description Copy correspondence, between Principal Yule Mackay and Captain Robertson, Officer, Commanding St. Andrews University Officers Training Corps. Concerns teaching of Military Surgery in University College.



Date 1915

Description Letter, 30 July, Andrew Bennett (Secretary, University of St. Andrews) to W. Arnot Watterston, (Secretary, University College, Dundee). Concerns insurance of buildings against ‘risk of aircraft attack or bombardment’. Also attached, list and assessment of College buildings and equipment.



Date 1919

Description Letter, 7 February, Andrew Bennett, St. Andrews, to W. Arnot Watterston. Concerns


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the erection of a War Memorial



Date 1915

Description Letter, 16 May, Ernest G. Ritchie, to the Council, University College, Dundee. Concerns payment of his salary before army service.



Date [1914-1916]

Description Details of testing facilities and fees with some related accounts. Includes munitions tests.



Date 1916

Description Letter, 9 May, Patrick Geddes to Sir George Baxter. Regrets the refusal of leave for the second consecutive summer. States he is a practitioner of ‘Urban Surgery’ and feels the call of the war for town reconstruction. Explains his experience as a town planner and the need of the war devastated countries for his skill. Regrets that if future leave will not be granted he will have to consider retiring. Requests information on his right, if any, to a pension which of necessity would be a condition of retirement.



Date 1915

Description Letter, 21 September, R.A. Watson Watt to [Secretary of U.C.D.] applying for leave of absence for the period of the war to take up any position as assistant in the Meteorological Office at the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough.



Date 1919

Description Letter, 23 October, W. Peddie to the Secretary, regarding non-payment of minor expenses incurred in war work



Date 1915

Description Correspondence with War Office Armaments Output Committee, regarding U.C.D. Council offer of the use of the Peter's Laboratory for war work.



Date 1916


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Description Letter, from General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom. Concerns report of the Committee on Medical Schools and students presented to the Army Council, extracts of which are enclosed. Also gives reply of the Army Council with regard to third year medical students.



Date 1914-1916

Description Correspondence of J.W. Kimber, Instructor at the Fleming Gymnasium. Mainly relates to his progress and promotion at military training camp and arrangements at the gymnasium.



Date 1913-1921

Description University of St. Andrews. Senatus Academicus Minutes.



Date 1914-1919

Description University College, Dundee. Secretary. Incoming letters.



Date 1918

Description Extract from Echoes of the Great War: Diary of the Reverend Andrew Clark, Rector of Village of Great Leighs in rural Essex. Letter, 11 November, from his daughter Mildred, describing Armistice celebrations in Dundee, with reference to activities around University College.



Date 1921

Description Inaugural Address, delivered by Principal J.C. Irvine in the University of St. Andrews, 11 January. Concerns post-war reconstruction, rise of Science subjects, and future role of University.

Reference Recs A/680/13-17


Date 1914-1919

Description Magazine: The College.



Date 1914-1921


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Description Invoices of C.A.F. Kahlbaum, Berlin for supply of chemicals to the Chemistry Department of U.C.D., 1914, with notice of claim for debt by Kahlbaum against U.C.D. under provisions of the Treaty of Peace, and note by Alexander McKenzie indicating that the claim is too high, 1921



Date n.d.

Description Correspondence, minutes, agendas and reports of: College Council, including War Memorial Committee. 1883-1927.



Date 10 January 1922

Description Minute of the meeting of the Education Board. Includes reference to the War Memorial.

Reference Recs A/326/15(69-71)


Date 1914

Description Correspondence, September and November 1914, concerning the use of University buildings for the 4th (City of Dundee) Reserve Battalion, the Black Watch.



Date 12 March 1915

Description Circular letter, John Carmichael, Chief Constable, Dundee, with Scottish Office Circular 815. Concerns the use of the Red Cross flag and the recognised sign to protect certain buildings in the event of bombardment.



Date 20 July 1919

Description Order of service for the Day of Thanksgiving for Peace.



Date 1918

Description Account and receipt for aircraft and bombardment policies. 9 and 11 July.




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Date 13 October 1922

Description Minute of the meeting of the War Memorial Committee. Contains details of the ceremony for the unveiling of the memorial.



Date 1915-1918

Description Aircraft and bombardment insurance policies and correspondence.



Date 1914-1915

Description Letters, 1 December 1914 and 1915, Alexander McKenzie to the Secretary, requesting permission to carry out government work in department.

Reference UR-SF 2/1

Collection Professor Alexander David Peacock

Date [1914-1918]

Description Thesis: 'Investigations on The Human Body-Louse with Especial Reference to Its Roles as a Parasite and as a Vector of Trench Fever Under War Conditions', by A.D. Peacock, M.Sc. Part of a Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Science, University of Durham, 1927. [2 copies]

Reference UR-SF 2/3


Date 1916-1918

Description Bound volume of papers on lice, including: 'The Louse Problem at the Western Front', A.D. Peacock; 'Combating Lousiness Among Soldiers and Civilians', George H.F. Nuttall; 'D.G.M.S. Circular Memorandum No. 16 - preventive measures against lice', C.H. Burtchaell, Director General Medical Services, British Armies in France, August 1918, with Appendix VIII, An Improved Type of Hot Air Disinfestor.

Reference UR-SF 2/4


Date 1917-1923.

Description Bound volume of papers on trench fever by various authors.

Reference UR-SF 9/1/T-GED 9/1284

Collection Sir Patrick Geddes

Date 1915

Description Sympathy for Belgium. A talk to be given by Mme Biernie. Work at a Red Cross Hospital at Lochee, tending Belgian wounded.

Reference UR-SF 10/3/5

Collection Richard Charles Alexander (1884-1968), Professor of Surgery


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Date 4 November 1915

Description Letter from Wm. Turner, Principal, University of Edinburgh. University was unable at that time to dispense with Alexander's services in favour of the War effort.


Collection James Alfred Ewing, professor of Engineering, University College, Dundee

Date 1916

Description The Universities and the New Era. Address by Sir Alfred Ewing delivered at the Graduation Ceremonial of the University of Edinburgh. Discusses certain effects of the war on life of people and upon University life in particular. (Printed).

Reference THB 1/2/1/10-11

Collection Dundee Royal Infirmary

Date 1909 - 1925

Description Reports. Include statistical records of patient numbers and also of cases of such afflictions as shell shock, trench foot and gas poisoning.

Reference THB 1/3/2

Collection DUNDEE ROYAL INFIRMARY

Date 1912 - 1919

Description Minute book. Gives information on facilities for wounded soldiers etc.

Reference THB 1/6/2

Collection DUNDEE ROYAL INFIRMARY

Date 1917

Description Statistical tables of cases treated.

Reference THB 3

Collection THE ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL

Date 1899 - 1953

Description Minute books, annual reports and ledgers.

Reference THB 4/1/2

Collection DUNDEE WOMENS' HOSPITAL & NURSING HOME

Date 1908 - 1918

Description Report. Includes some information about the difficulties and privations of war life.

Reference UR-SF 2/13/3(12-13)



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Date 1915

Description ‘Surprise gift for Dr Geddes’ - cutting from Courier and Advertiser, 23 October 1954, showing photograph of Patrick Geddes in the role of a mediaeval scholar (1912) which had been sent to Dr Arthur Geddes by Joseph Richards, at one time apprentice gardener at University College. Transcript of covering letter mentions Richards' action in Gallipoli campaign.



Date 1916

Description Trench map of Guillemont area, scale 1: 20,000, corrected to 5 August 1916.



Date 1916-1919

Description Army Book 439 - Officer's record of service; includes personal details, addresses; 'Preliminary issue of British War Medal Riband', War Office 1919. 1916-1919.



Date 1916-1921

Description Bank book for account with Messrs Holt and Co., 'Army Agents and Bankers'.



Date 1917-1918

Description Memorandum, 28 October, 1917, from Colonel H.M.V. Gray, Consultant Surgeon, Third Army; Guidelines for Officers (Surgeons) at Casualty Clearing Stations. With covering letters, 7 November 1917, 6 and 17 March 1918.



Date 21 March 1918

Description 'Surgical Work'. Card [MS].



Date 8 August 1918

Description Medical Research Committee - Statistical Reports, 'Gunshot wound; compound fracture of femur, and penetration of hip and knee joints'.


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Date 1919

Description Telegram, 4 January 1919, from Lieutenant Colonel Ray, requesting details of Alexander's war record. With letter of acknowledgement, 12 January 1919.

Reference UR-SF 10/4/8,9


Date 1919

Description Letters and Testimonials, (8) 29 April 1919, from H.M.W. Gray, Aberdeen; (9) 29 May 1919, from Anthony A. Bowlby, London.



Date n.d.

Description Letter, 21 October [?], from Jack Taylor, Dundee, regarding the treatment of 'Aleppo Boil'.



Date 10 November 1919

Description Letter of Demobilisation, from War Office, London.



Date 1914-1917; 1920

Description 'Note-book for Clinical Surgery'; books of MS notes, detailing operations, etc. [written while serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France]



Date c1917-1918

Description Field Message Book ('Army Book 153'), with detachable cover and printed notes on how to arrange messages. Includes MS notes on supplies and injuries; with postcards and notes on condition and treatment of wounded soldiers [written while serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France]




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Date July 1917 - September 1917

Description 'Army Book 152' - Correspondence Book (Field Service): clinical notes relating to injuries and illnesses of servicemen; with analysis of cases, correspondence, and postcard notes on condition and treatment of wounded soldiers [written while serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France].



Date September 1917 - October 1917

Description Army Correspondence Book (Field Service): clinical notes, with analysis of cases, and postcard notes on condition and treatment of wounded soldiers [written while serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France].



Date October 1917 - November 1917

Description Army Correspondence Book (Field Service): clinical notes, with list of operations, etc. [written while serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France].



Date June 1918 - October 1918

Description Army Correspondence Book (Field Service): clinical notes; with postcards and other papers on condition and treatment of wounded soldiers [written while serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France].



Date September - November 1918

Description Army Correspondence Book (Field Service): copy letter book [3 letters]; includes breakdown of the number of wounded admitted [written while serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France].



Date November 1918

Description Army Correspondence Book (Field Service): clinical notes; with postcards. on condition and treatment of wounded soldiers [written while serving in the British Expeditionary Force in France]

Reference UR-SF 10/8/4(1)


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Date c1918

Description German infantryman, gunshot wound of the abdomen, World War I. [MS]

Reference UR-SF 10/8/4(4)


Date 1917-1930

Description 'Carcinoma of the Kidney associated with lodging fragment of shell' Alcoholic war veteran, injured 1917; illustrated. Includes correspondence with Ministry of Pensions about his case.

Reference UR-SF 10/10/1(1-13)


Date c1916-1918

Description 'Surgery and War', with particular reference to Alexander's World War I experience. Include: (1) 'Wounds in Warfare'. Delivered to the C.S.M.M.G., Dundee Orthopaedic and Rheumatic Clinic. 13 November 1939. (2) 'Gas Gangrene'. With letter, 30 November 1939, from Professor Tulloch. (6) 'Gas Gangrene - Paper read at a Clinical meeting at an E.M.S. Base Hospital' (10) 'Reminiscences of 1914-[19]18', n.d. [MS] (11) 'Surgical Contrasts; 1914-1918 and 1939 -'. n.d. (12) 'Surgery in War and Peace'. n.d. (13) 'Surgery in Two Wars'. n.d.



Date [1916-1918] c1951

Description 'Forty years of surgery'; autobiographical talk - Alexander's teachers, and their teaching methods; surgical methods, before, during and after the First World War.



Date [1916-1918] 1955

Description 'Milestones in Surgery'; historical talk. [Anaesthesia; radiology; the two World Wars and after].



Date c1916-1918

Description World War I - Official photographs of casualties on stretchers (with 2 enlargements) and lorry carrying casualties. Postcards of Avesnes Le-Comte; aerial photograph of lines [?].


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Collection Professor John Anderson, D.S.O., M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S.E. (1886-1935), Professor of Surgery, University College, Dundee

Date n.d.

Description List of personnel and sketch of operating theatre in First World War



Date 1918

Description Christmas card from Anderson in France

Reference UR-SF 52/2/1-12


Date 1914-1918

Description Photographs of Anderson and other officers and soldiers, of hospital ward and operating theatre

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