A small notebook containing diary entries from 24 February 1939 - 22 June 1939 when the battalion arrived at Gyantse. The entries have been annotated with pencil-written dates in 1978, presumably made when copying of the diaries was undertaken.
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21 Description archivistique résultats pour British India
A small notebook containing diary entries from 23 June 1939 - 8 March 1940. Mackenzie notes that on 10th August 1939, Professor G. Tucci visited who he writes is 'probably the world's best Tibetan scholar' and who he continued to meet with in the succeeding days. Alongside the entries of his own life are comments on the world news including the start of WW II. The regiment returned to Kolkata on 10th October 1939 and the diary entries subsequently contain information about his social life as well as war news and the death of Jemi Bikram Singh. He received authority for leave home on 19th December 1939 and travelled from Dum Dum to Jodhpur with Air France on 24 December, flew to Basra the following day and arrived in Baghdad on the 26th December. From there he went to Tunis and then Paris and reached England on 29 December 1939 when he returned to his wife to find her still poorly from pneumonia. The entry for 29th January 1940 contains three sketches made on his journey to London.
Sans titreDraft of 'Escorts in Tibet' from August 1938 to October 1939 including Appendices for 'The Cave of Delicious Misery', Richard Vivian Warren, and Dr Max Henn.
Sans titreTyped full draft of Escorts in Tibet - a more modern version without annotation.
Sans titreHandwritten list of a selection of photographs or slides with some explanatory detail, dated 2 October 1959.
Sans titreMap of the route from Calcutta to Lhasa drawn in coloured pencil.
Sans titreDrawn map of route from Siliguri to Lhasa on a scale of 1 inch to 25 miles. Pencil and ink. On the reverse are recorded the Distances between Gyantse and Lhasa, Gyantse and Jalap-La, and Jalap-La and Gangtok.
Sans titreLieutenant-Colonel Fleming Mackenzie of the 1st Battalion of the Fifteenth Punjab Regiment commanded the Escort to the Trade Agent in Tibet in 1938-1939. This material contains original diaries written whilst in Tibet, later typed drafts of these diaries, essays written about his experiences, hand-drawn maps and other material associated with his visit.
Sans titreA series of drafts for 'Escorts in Tibet', the record of Mackenzie's time as part of the escort to the Trade Agent, based on his diaries (FM/1).
Sans titreFurther draft of 'Escorts in Tibet' covering the period August 1938 to November 1939. The first 40 pages covering to 27 March are typed. Pages 41-81 are handwritten and cover from 29 March 1939 to 10 November 1959. These were probably originally part of FM/2/1. There are three further typed sheets with Appendix 2: biography of Richard Vivian Warren, and Appendix 3: biography of Dr. Max Henn. All are annotated and edited.
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