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

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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