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] Russell], Parts I & II, typed MS in two ledgers, from birth to entry in World War Two, including insights to Russell's Sandhurst contemporary Sir Winston Churchill; excerpt from the latter which has before been published, a typed manuscript of his Berlin memoirs, From the Fighting Forces, March 1924: Reminiscences of the German Court, a further two carbon copies, (3); his photograph album, applied with images of his life from serving as attaché in Berlin before the war - leisure and work, the ambassador Sir Edward Goschen, various manoeuvres with his fellow attachés in Sweden, the King of Sweden, the Kaiser's Birthday Parade, a zeppelin and the Ottoman Turkish leader Enver Pasha, further family scenes throughout the first-half of the 20th century, boundary commission work in Hungary, Brigadier-General Russell inspecting the Sussex Cadets in World War Two, further post-War life, including family homes and pets, marbled ledger album; Edwardian period studio portrait photograph of the then Major Russell, easel frame; World War One, 4 Mentioned in Despatches certificates, dated from 4th January 1915 - 8th November 1918, (4); Mrs Russell's photograph album, compiled in England during World War One, and illustrated with b/w photographs of domestic life, the Russells' children at various ages, etc., including the then Major home on leave, some inserted telegrams, the album itself partially-full, contemporary morocco binding by Truslove & Hanson Ltd., stamped, earlier carte-de-visites of the young Hon. Alexander Villiers Russell taken in Berlin where his father was German Ambassador, the album 21.5cm x 17.5cm; his own copy of Cecil Hunt's book 'The Gallant Campeador, London: 1941, 8vo; a late Victorian Russell family photography album, comprising b/w photographs of British and Irish country houses, leisurely photographs of the family, their dogs, cattles and a fox hunt, regimental and further formal dinners, a trip to India via the Suez Canal, illustrating Lucknow and its ruins, ancient sites, Colonial architecture and further edifices of the Raj, boats, trains and railways, further transport infrastructure, monkeys, scenes of domestic native life, etc., quarter-calf over cloth album, oblong 4to (disbound); further loose photographs, studio portrait photographs of Russell before, during and after the Boer War, others of his wife as a debutant, their children, etc; correspondence, including those of celebration and consolation on Buckingham Palace and Sandringham headed notepaer; General Russell's ticket for the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as a director of the Sun Insurance Office Ltd., correspondence relating to his directorship; Elizabeth II 1953 Coronation souvenir programmes, (2); the Russell's visitor's book, Ketches, Newick, Sussex, inscribed from January 9th 1937 to 21st & 22nd January 1957, illustrated with b/w family photographs throughout, contemporary green calf (disbound, rubbed and worn), oblong 4to; [archive collection] The Hon. Alexander Victor Frederick Villiers Russell (1874-1965) was the son of Odo William Leopold Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill of Milton Ernest Hall, Bedfordshire, and Lady Emily Theresa Villiers. He was educated at Wellington College before entering the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Gaining the rank of brevet Major in 1899 serving in the Grenadier Guards. Fighting in the Boer War between 1899 and 1902 he was twice mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the Queen's Medal with 6 clasps and the King's with 2. Subsequently he was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1908. Between 1908 and 1910 Russell was a General Staff Officer at the War Office before serving as the Military Attaché in Berlin just prior to World War One, and subsequently fighting at the front and being mentioned in despatches three times. In 1918 Russia and France, grateful Allied Powers, awarded the then Major Russell the Companion Order of St. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) and the Chevalier Ordr