*India - Big Game Shooting. An unpublished original typescript of a big game shooting diary, 1904

*India - Big Game Shooting. An unpublished original typescript of a big game shooting diary, 1904-22, written by Brigadier Frederick George Gillies of the Indian Army, and typed up in the late 1930s, largely concerning a major trip in 1904, 1907 & 1911, in the Kashmir, Ladaka and Tibet Regions, but also concerning the Central Provinces, and the Kanara Jungles, Bombay Presidency, giving a good diary account of his observations, travels and animals shot, etc., contents leaf at front, 2 pp. neat manuscript detailing the marches in 1904 and 1907 (a total of 1,054 miles), 165 pp. neatly close-typed text (estimated 80,000 words), some very neat amendments in the authors holograph, a typed list of seven animal skins and fifty-three heads presented to the British Museum in 1938 and 1939, together with the British Museum (Natural History) receipt for the skins of two tigers, two leopards, two sloth bears and a Himalayan black bear, authors ownership name at front, the whole neatly inserted into a plastic ring binder, together with approx. 200 negatives of photos taken by Gillies on these trips, the majority meticulously identified in the authors holograph with photo details and date, showing views, local people, big game and fish kills, good quality, plus a full set of modern black and white photo reproductions from the negatives, 9 x 12cm, mostly numbered and with printed details beneath, plus two of Gillies original cameras (Kodak folding Brownie Six - 20 & Kodak Six - 20 Junior), both seemingly in good order in orig. pouches, plus a pair of his army issue aluminium folding binoculars by Aitchison & Co.. Brigadier Frederick George Gillies, C. B., O.B.E., (1881-1955) was educated at Tonbridge and after attending Sandhurst he was gazetted in 1900. His first Regiment was the 33rd Queen Victorias Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army, and later he served in the Poona Horse and the Royal Garhwal Rifles. He attended the Staff College, Quetta, in 1913 and during World War One took part in the campaign in Mesopotamia, being mentioned twice in Dispatches. He was also mentioned in Dispatches for his services in Southern Persia in 1918 and in Waziristan in 1919 for which he was appointed O.B.E. Later he commanded the Royal Garhwal Rifles and then held command of the Ambala Brigade from 1932 to 1934. Copyright for the diary and photographs transfers to the buyer of this lot. Please note that further fishing diaries, photographs and related will be offered for sale by auction in our sale on 25th July. (-)