Description
Object description
An important collection comprising: two ms notebooks of memoirs (170pp) covering Ewart's childhood and service with the Hampshire and 31st Punjabi Regiments in England and India, 1883 - 1886, and subsequent senior appointments in the Indian Army, First World War service as Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport (Indian Corps) on the Western Front, 1914 - 1915, and Deputy Adjutant and QMG with the East African Expeditionary Force, 1915 - 1918; ms diaries (190pp), with carbon and ts copies, covering Ewart's post-war duties in Berlin as Red Cross Commissioner for the Repatriation of British POWs and President of the Inter-Allied Commission for the Repatriation of Russian POWs, 1918 - 1919; a bound scrapbook (60pp) containing much interesting ephemera from his time in East Africa and Berlin, including letters from Smuts, Birdwood and Pershing, copies of orders and despatches, photographs, and a collection of Berlin food ration cards, 1918 - 1919; and a folder of miscellaneous papers.
Content description
An important collection comprising: two ms notebooks of memoirs (170pp) covering Ewart's childhood and service with the Hampshire and 31st Punjabi Regiments in England and India, 1883 - 1886, and subsequent senior appointments in the Indian Army, First World War service as Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport (Indian Corps) on the Western Front, 1914 - 1915, and Deputy Adjutant and QMG with the East African Expeditionary Force, 1915 - 1918; ms diaries (190pp), with carbon and ts copies, covering Ewart's post-war duties in Berlin as Red Cross Commissioner for the Repatriation of British POWs and President of the Inter-Allied Commission for the Repatriation of Russian POWs, 1918 - 1919; a bound scrapbook (60pp) containing much interesting ephemera from his time in East Africa and Berlin, including letters from Smuts, Birdwood and Pershing, copies of orders and despatches, photographs, and a collection of Berlin food ration cards, 1918 - 1919; and a folder of miscellaneous papers.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1990-12