"The Serving Soldier Collection Library
contains themed selections of photographs and other archives drawn from
up to fifty of the eight hundred or so personal paper collections held
by the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College
London which have been selected for digitisation as part of the Serving
Soldier project - a rich and and varied body of archive material that
illuminates the colourful and eclectic careers of servicemen from the
1880s until 1945.
Collection Library material includes personal diaries,
correspondence, photograph albums, detailed reports and memoranda, maps,
posters and oral histories exploring war, peace, diplomacy and casting
light on the many alternative careers pursued by servicemen - for
example as explorers, inventors, writers and artists.
Among the many themed collections are snapshots of daily life in the
British Empire, examples of sometimes shocking photography of the
ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign during the Great War, and details of the
often complex British involvement in the troubled North West Frontier
region and Afghanistan."
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