Copy of an extract from the diary of R. Smith relating to the Zulu War

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.r.196
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1878-1879
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 23 ff.

Scope and Content

Extract from the diary of R. Smith while serving in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards during the Zulu War, 1878-1879. Manuscript copy made by his daughter, Ida Ashby.

Administrative / Biographical History

Unknown.

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Note

Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

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Listed as no. 1214 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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