Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Burma

512 bytes added, 26 March
m
FIBIS resources
*"The Life of a Madras Artilleryman: The William Porter Letters" by Peter Bailey [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal Number 3 (Spring 2000'')]]. FIBIS members may read this article online.
:Extracts from "The Private Letters of William Porter, Gunner, 3rd Batt., Madras Artillery (1826-1857) (Mss Eur. G128, British Library)", including time spent in Burma
*FIBIS database:[https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=412 Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO) 1940 - 1947] Lists of ABRO Appointments, Rewards, Relinquishments and Rangoon Port Defence Volunteers
==Military==
:[https://archive.org/details/a-burmese-arcady-c-m-enriquez-1923/mode/2up ''A Burmese Arcady, an account of a long and intimate sojourn amongst the mountain dwellers of the Burmese hinterland and of their engaging characteristics and customs''] by Major C M Enriquez, [3/70th] Kachin Rifles. 1923. Archive.org. Also available [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea017 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023047826 ''Forty years in Burma''] by Dr J E [John Ebenezer] Marks 1917 Archive.org. He went to Burma in 1859 as a layman for educational purposes in connection with the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel [SPG] at Maulmein. He was ordained Priest in 1866 in Calcutta, and subsequently returned to Burma, as an educational missionary, particularly at St John's College Rangoon, retiring in 1900.
* ''A Short History of Burma'' by S W Cocks [https://archive.org/details/cu31924022998623/page/n7/mode/2up 1919 2nd edition, revised and partially rewritten], [https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofbu00cockrich/page/n9/mode/2up 1910 edition]. Both Archive.org.
*[https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea289 ''Tourist guide and shopping list : where to go, what to see, where to shop in Calcutta and Burma''] 1920. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023498458#page/n3/mode/2up ''Burma Pictures''] c 1920 Archive.org
40
edits

Navigation menu