NAM.1996-10-95-371

Papers on Minorca including photocopy of 1845 history in German of Hanoverian troops who served on the island, manuscript notes, journal cuttings and photocopied items relating to the military history of the British occupation, including manuscript quotations from the Letter Books and General Orders Lt Gen James Murray (1775 to 1782), items relating to Gen John Mostyn (Governor of Minorca 1768), folder of photographs, newspaper cuttings, negatives, postcard, tourist brochure, containing historic illustrations of the island, and contemporary views, with some manuscript notes, folder of general items (newspaper cuttings, local history booklet, extracted tourist brochure papers and tourist guide to the Balearic Islands). Original material of period 1939 (c) to 1972 and seems largely to have been assembled late 1960s, early 1970s. From a collection of papers of Brig Roy Gilbert Thurburn relating to his military career, 1939-1952.