Fonds F0315 - E.C.A. Gordon fonds

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E.C.A. Gordon fonds

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F0315

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  • 1856 (Creation)

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0.03 m of textual records

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Biographical history

E.C.A. Gordon (fl. 1856), was a major-general in the Royal Engineers attached to the Navy at the Turkish port of Galatea and Pera during the Crimean War. He was in charge of supplies for the British Navy and commandant to the Russian prisoners of war.

Custodial history

This material was purchased from the Marchmont Bookshop.

Scope and content

The fonds consists of a diary of E.C.A. Gordon and account book for work in the shipyards at Galatea, Constantinople, for the year 1856. The accounts are kept in piastres [Spanish currency] and British pounds.

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      The fonds comprises the following accession: 1960-005. No further accruals are expected.

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      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2002/04/04 Jizi Chen:. Word Perfect (Creation)
      2002/04/04 Awaiting review by the Data Collection Archivist
      2003/04/29 Shannon MacDonald. Added URL for online finding aid. Updated wording in accruals, access restrictions, extent, finding aid.
      2014/07/22 Migrated to AtoM
      2018/06/04 KCP. Added GMD, finding aid note, and published

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