Col. Desmond Bannister, MBE, MC served in the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, in Tanganyika, Kenya, Italian Somaliland and Abyssinia, 1936-1941.

Personal data sheet, responses to aide-memoire, account of 1940-1941 East African campaign, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (7) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Bannister | Desmond J. | fl 1936-1980s | Colonel

World War, 1939-1945 | Tanzania

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Patrick W.G. Barnes served with the 27th Battalion, King's African Rifles in Northern Rhodesia and Kenya, 1942, 22nd Battalion, Kenya, Tanganyika, Ceylon, Burma and India, 1943-1944, and 31st Battalion, India and Northern Rhodesia, 1945.

Personal data sheet, address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, lecture prospectus and account of East African campaigns, 20th century.

Listed as no. 920 (8) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Barnes | Patrick, W.G. | fl 1942-1980s | army officer

World War, 1939-1945 | Ceylon

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel Peter A. Belton served in the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1956-1959.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; reports and addresses, 1957-1958; maps, [1940s-1950s?]; press cuttings, [1950s?]; list of slides, etc., 20th century.

Listed as no. 920 (11) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Belton | Peter A. | fl 1956-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut. Donald F.T. Bowie served in the 2/2nd (later 22nd) Battalion, King's African Rifles, in Kenya, Ethiopia, Burma and India, 1940-1946.

Correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, [1978-1984]; transcript, [1980s?] of account of the sleeping-sickness evacuation of the Wandingo tribe from Tanganyika in 1947; account of his family's experiences in the 1915 Chilembwe uprising, Malawi; United States Army map of Dar-es-Salaam and surrounding area, 1969; account by R.M. Bell of the Maji-Maji Rebellion in the Liwale District; transcript, [1980s?] of account of war-time experiences, with contemporary photographs, and of action in Burma, with maps, 1940s.

Listed as no. 920 (24A) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Bowie | Donald F.T. | fl 1940-1980s | Lieut.

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Maji Maji Uprising, 1905-1907

African trypanosomiasis | Africa, East

Malawi | History | Chilembwe Rebellion, 1915

Malawi | Description and travel | Views

Ethiopia | Description and travel | Views

Lieut.-Colonel Frederick R.C. Bray served in the 6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Tanganyika, 1939-1940, 9th Battalion, Somaliland, Abyssinia, Kenya and Tanganyika, 1943-1944, staff training, 1941-1943 and staff appointments, 1944-1948.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, etc., [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (26) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Bray | Frederick R.C. | fl 1939-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Charles F. Broomfield served in the 1st Kenya Regiment, 1938-1940, and in the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somaliland, Abyssinia and South-East Asia, 1941-1958.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, copy of aide-memoire with detailed responses, [1978-1984]; photographs related to service with the King's African Rifles, [1940s-1950s], souvenir programmes and other booklets relating to the King's African Rifles, Uganda and Kenya, etc., [c1951-1962].

Listed as no. 920 (31) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Broomfield | Charles F. | fl 1938-1980s | Major

World War, 1939-1945 | Personal narratives, British

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Kenya Regiment

Lieut.-Colonel Anthony Brounlie, MC served in the 4th Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Madagascar and Kenya, 1941-1943 and in the King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, and memorandum on war-time service in Africa, with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (32) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Brounlie | Anthony | fl 1941-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Northern Rhodesian Regiment

Great Britain. Army. (Nigeria) Infantry Brigade, 23rd

Major Geoffrey Noel Burden (fl 1898-1980s), CMG (1952), MBE (1938), was educated at Exeter School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, undertaking military service, 1915-1923 and [1940]-1942, serving latterly in 2/2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland, 1940, 2nd East Africa (Holding Battalion), Northern Rhodesia, 1941, and the civil resettlement camp, Nyasaland, 1942. He began civilian work as a cadet, Nyasaland, 1925, district officer, 1927 and Director of Publicity, 1936. He became Chief Recruiting Officer, 1940 and Assistant Chief Secretary, 1945. He was made Commissioner of Labour, Gold Coast, 1946 and Chief Commissioner, 1950.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, [1978-1984]; extracts from autobiography relating to service in East African forces, with transcript of entire autobiography, [c1980s?].

Listed as no. 920 (36) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Memorandum on labour migration in Africa, 1951, report, The Gonja Development Company, Damongo, December 1950-June 1952 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 652); tape and transcript of interview concerning administrative service, 1925-1946, in Nyasaland (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1454); tape and transcript of interview concerning experiences as Labour Commissioner, Gold Coast, 1946-1960, and as Chief Regional Officer, 1960-1963, Northern Territories (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1435); report and articles on migrant Nyasaland labour, 1947-1964 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1742 (6)).

Burden | Geoffrey Noel | fl 1898-1980s | Major

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

C.W. Catt served in the Signals, Tanganyika, Kenya and Italian Somaliland, 1939-1941, and East Africa Signals Training, Kenya, 1941-1942. In the early 1970s he worked for the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia Ltd. (INDECO).

Correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, [1978-1984]; account of experiences training the Signal Section of the Southern Brigade, account of experiences in East Africa, including maps, notes, original letters and licences relating to war-time service, [1936-1987].

Listed as no. 920 (39) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Typescript, Impressions of a journey on the Tanzania-Zambia railway, 1976 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1736); correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. of service with the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia Ltd. (INDECO), 1970-1972 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1905).

Catt | C.W. | fl 1937-1980s

World War, 1939-1945 | Tanzania

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain. Army | Signalling

Lieut.-Colonel Henry K.P. Chavasse served in the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Uganda, 1960-1962.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (42) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Chavasse | Henry K.P. | fl 1960-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Hugh N. Clemas served in the 23rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, in Kenya, 1951-1954.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; exercise books with details of daily operations and activities, and accounts of safaris, [1950s].

Listed as no. 920 (46) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Clemas | Hugh N. | fl 1951-1980s | Major

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

George H.H. Coles served in the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, in Somalia, Kenya and Uganda, 1949-1953 and in Uganda, 1955-1957, and in the East African Training Corps, Kenya, 1953-1955.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; photographs and leaflets relating to the King's African Rifles, [c1950s].

Listed as no. 920 (48) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Coles | George H.H. | fl 1949-1980s | army officer

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. East African Training Corps

Lieut.-Colonel Paul H. Courtenay served in East Africa Flight, Army Air Corps, Kenya, 1961-1963.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (54) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Courtenay | Paul H. | fl 1961-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. Air Corps

Lieut.-Colonel Henry N. Crawford served in the 11th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1959-1962, and as British Defence Advisor to the High Commissioner, Uganda, 1968-1971.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, description of work as Defence Advisor, Uganda with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (55) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Crawford | Henry N. | fl 1959-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel and Defence Advisor to the High Commissioner, Uganda

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Brigadier Gerald Hilary Cree (1905-1998), CBE (1946), DSO (1945), was educated at Kelly College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the West Yorkshire Regiment, 1924 and served in the King's African Rifles, 1931-1936. He saw further service in Palestine, East Africa, Abyssinia, Western Desert, Iraq and Burma, 1938-1945, commanding the 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, 1942-1944 and the 1st Battalion, 1946-1948. He was Commander, 25th (East African) Infantry Brigade, 1944-1945 and was made Brigadier, 1953. He served as Commander, 127th (East Lancs) Infantry Brigade (TA), 1953-1956, Colonel, The West Yorkshire Regiment, 1956-1957 and Colonel, PWO Regiment of Yorkshire, from 1960 till his retirement in 1970. In 1945 he married Joan Agnes Eden, with whom he had one daughter.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; account of a flag march in Mbulu District, Tanzania in 1934, photographs relating to service with African forces, [1930s-1940s].

Listed as no. 920 (57) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Cree | Gerald H. | 1905-1998 | Brigadier

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

World War, 1939-1945 | India

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. West Yorkshire Regiment

Great Britain. Army. East African Infantry Brigade, 25th

Great Britain. Army. Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve

Captain V.G.S. Damms served with the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles (Medical Officer), East Africa, in Ceylon, Burma and India, 1941-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, aide-memoire with answers inserted, memorandum on war-time experiences with the King's African Rifles, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (61) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Damms | V.G.S. | fl 1941-1980s | Captain

World War, 1939-1945 | Sri Lanka

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

Medicine, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Captain Richard R. Darlington, OBE served with the 71st Battalion, King's African Rifles, in Ethiopia, Somaliland, Kenya, Ceylon and Burma, 1942-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, memorandum on war-time experiences with the King's African Rifles, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (62) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Darlington | Richard R. | fl 1942-1980s | Captain

World War, 1939-1945 | Sri Lanka

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Keith W. Davies served with the Somaliland Camel Corps, British Somaliland, 1942, the 71st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Somaliland, Ethiopia, Kenya and Burma, 1942-1944, and as assistant district commissioner/district commissioner, Somaliland, 1944-1946.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; xerox copies of petitions, 1946, from locals seeking Davies' retention as district commissioner in Berbera; booklet of poems by Davies, 20th century.

Listed as no. 920 (64) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Davies | Keith W. | fl 1942-1980s | Major

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

Riots | Somalia

Somalia | History | 20th century

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Somaliland Camel Corps

Captain A.B.Doyle served with the Somaliland Gendarmerie, Italian Somaliland, 1941-1943.

Address card and correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with partial transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (72) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Doyle | A.B. | fl 1941-1980s | Captain

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

Military police | Somalia

Lieut.-Colonel Geoffrey R. Durrant, MBE served in the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, 1956-1957.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; photocopy of article by Durrant on a flag march in East Africa from The Journal of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Vol. 40, Summer 1969; The Veterinary Review, August 1978, containing an article by Durrant on the Royal Army Veterinary Corps.

Listed as no. 920 (77) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Durrant | Geoffrey R. | fl 1956-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Veterinary Corps

Major Richard J. Durtnell served with the 2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Northern Rhodesia Regiment and Zambia Regiment, Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, 1964-1967.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, aide-memoire with responses inserted and transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (78) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Durtnell | Richard J. | fl 1964-1980s | Major

Africa, East | History, military

Armies | Zambia | History

Captain Patrick L. Edwards served in the 2nd Battalion, Nigerian Regiment, Kenya, Somaliland and Abyssinia, 1940-1941, in the 4/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Somaliland and Abyssinia, 1941-1943, and Staff, Kenya, 1943-1944.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; transcript of a letter, 1941, from Edwards' platoon sergeant to the Nigerian press concerning the War.

Listed as no. 920 (80) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Edwards | Patrick L. | fl 1940-1980s | Captain

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Nigerian Regiment

Francis Gerald Finch (b 1924) was educated at Stonyhurst College and undertook military service, 1943-1950, including with the Somalia Gendarmerie in Italian Somaliland, 1946-1948, in the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Somalia and Kenya, 1949-1950, rising to the rank of captain. He started work as a cadet, Tanganyika, 1951, and held the position of district officer, 1953-1962 in the Tanganyika Government Service.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, memorandum of experiences in East Africa with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (90) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Photocopied statements of accounts of the Tanganyika reunion, 1971-1983, with two lists of members, 1978-1981 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1899).

Finch | Francis Gerald | fl 1924-1980s | colonial administrator

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Military police | Somalia

Major Frank Flory, MBE served with the 23rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1952, the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Malaya and Kenya, 1953-1961, 6th Battalion, King's African Rifles/1st Battalion, Tanganyika Rifles, Tanganyika, 1961-1962, and 2nd Battalion, Tanganyika Rifles, 1962-1964.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; various other papers, 20th century, comprising invitations to Somali independence and Tanganyika anniversary of independence celebrations, photographs of presentation of colours to the 2nd Battalion, Tanganyika Regiment (with programme), Christmas card, and General Smuts' Campaign in East Africa by Brig.-General John Henry Verinder Crowe (London, J. Murray, 1918).

Listed as no. 920 (95) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Flory | Frank | fl 1952-1980s | Major

Smuts | Jan Christian | fl 1952-1980s | statesman

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Tanganyika Rifles

World War, 1914-1918 | Campaigns | Africa

Lieut.-Colonel Patrick W. Forbes of Corse, OBE, DL served in the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, 1946-1947.

Personal data sheet, letter to Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (96) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Forbes | Patrick W. | fl 1946-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel Walter A.H. Forbes served in the Sudan Defence Force, 1932-1945.

Address card, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, including draft article on service and list of foreign words used in interview; transcript of tape-recorded interview, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (96A) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Forbes | Walter A.H. | fl 1932-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Sudan Defence Force | Anecdotes, facetiae, satire etc.

Sudan | History, military

Sir (James) Angus Gillan (1885-1981) KBE (1939), CMG (1935) was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Magdalen College, Oxford, entering the Sudan Political Service in 1909. He was Inspector at el Obeid and Nakud (Kordofan Province), 1910-1916. He became Assistant Political and Intelligence Officer, Sudan Western Frontier Force, 1916, during the campaign against Ali Dinar in Dar Fur. He served as Deputy and Acting Governor of the Nuba Mountains Province, 1921-1928, Governor of Kordofan Province, 1928-1932, Assistant Civil Secretary, 1932-1934, and Civil Secretary, from 1934, retiring in 1939.

He served as Principal Officer, North Midland Civil Defence Region, Nottingham, 1940-1941, Controller, Commonwealth and Empire Division, British Council, 1941-1949 and British Council Representative in Australia, 1949-1951.

He was a fellow, King's College, University of London (Treasurer, 1955-1970), and President at various times of the Royal Over-Seas League, Conservative Commonwealth Council, Sudan Government British Pensioners' Association, Anglo-Sudanese Association, etc.. He was awarded the Order of the Nile, 2nd Class, 1935. In 1917 he married Margaret Douglas Ord-Mackenzie, with whom he had one son.

Address card, notes on tape recording, list of the arms of Ali Dinar, list of foreign words used in interview, transcript of interview, [1978-1984]; photographs taken in Sudan, 1916.

Listed as no. 920 (103) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Gillan | James Angus | 1885-1981 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Administrator

Ali Dinar | c1867-1916 | Sultan of Darfur

World War, 1914-1918 | Sudan

Sudan | History, military

Sudan | Politics and government

Darfur (Sudan) | History

Major Walter S. Gimber served in the 1/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya and Madagascar, 1940-1943, 2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Burma, 1944, and 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Uganda, 1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; photographs of King's African Rifles, [1940s], with list.

Listed as no. 920 (104) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Gimber | Walter S. | fl 1940-1980s | Major

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel Harold P.L. Glass, MC served with the 2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Tanganyika, Nyasaland and British Somaliland, 1937-1940, 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Abyssinia and Ceylon, 1941-1942, 18th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1943, and 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Ceylon, Burma, Tanganyika and Northern Rhodesia, 1944-1953.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; scrapbook mainly consisting of photographs taken while on active service, 1935-1953; Central African Post, 5th June 1953.

Listed as no. 920 (105) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Glass | Harold P.L. | fl 1937-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa | History, military

World War, 1914-1918 | Tanzania

World War, 1914-1918 | Burma

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Northern Rhodesia Regiment

George H.W. Goode, CBE, DSO served in the 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Kenya and British Somaliland, 1937-1940, and Headquarters, East Africa Command, Kenya, Italian Somaliland and Abyssinia, 1940-1941. He served with the 28th East Africa Infantry Brigade, British Somaliland, 1941-1942, 13th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1943 and 2nd Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Madagascar, 1944, then the 1st Battalion, Rhodesian African Rifles, Kenya, Ceylon and Burma, 1944-1946, 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Malaya, 1953-1956, and the 70th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1958-1961.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, memorandum on service in Africa, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (109) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Goode | George H.W. | fl 1937-1980s | army officer

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

Africa | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Northern Rhodesia Regiment

Great Britain. Army. East Africa Infantry Brigade, 28th

Great Britain. Army. Rhodesian African Rifles

Major James Gordon, MBE served with the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1953-1959.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, [1978-1984]; photographs relating to service in the King's African Rifles, 1950s; circular letter from Major Dimoline concerning mutinies among African troops, [c1964], programme for presentation of Colours to the 5th, 7th and 23rd Battalions, King's African Rifles, July 1955.

Listed as no. 920 (113) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Gordon | James | fl 1953-1980s | Major

Africa, East | History, military

Kenya | History | Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Brigadier Percy W.P. Green, CBE, DSO served in the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1954-1956 and Headquarters, East Africa Command, 1957-1960.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, transcript of interview, two stories, relating to Kenya and Tanganyika, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (118) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Green | Percy W.P. | fl 1954-1980s | Brigadier

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel John T.H. Gunning served in the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Northern Rhodesia and Malaya, 1950-1952.

Address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, brief responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (120) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Gunning | John T.H. | fl 1950-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

Malaysia | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Edward G.C. Haigh served in the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1939-1940, 2/3rd Battalion, Turkhana, Abyssinia, Kenya, 1940-1942, and 5/6th Battalion, Uganda, Abyssinia, Tanganyika and India, 1942-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; plan of operations of 12th African Division, Gondar campaign, 1941; The Abyssinian campaigns...The official story of the conquest of Italian East Africa (London, H.M. Stationery Office, 1942).

Listed as no. 920 (122) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Haigh | Edward G.C. | fl 1939-1980s | Major

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Tanzania

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Gurth H. Howard, MC served with the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Abyssinia, Madagascar and Burma, 1940-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, memorandum on service with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (141) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Howard | Gurth H. | fl 1940-1980s | Major

World War, 1914-1918 | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Captain John W. Howard (b 1917) was educated at Gresham's School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, taking the post of district officer, Kenya, 1939. He served in the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somalia, Abyssinia and Madagascar, 1940-1944. He was supervisor, colonial service courses, Cambridge, 1951-1953, senior district commissioner, Kenya, 1957, and executive officer, African land development, from the same year. He was Chairman of the Land Development and Settlement Board, 1962-1963, temporary Principal, D.T.C., 1963 and Overseas Development Ministry, 1964.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (143A) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Annual report, 1944-1945, Mandera District, Kenya; notes on visit to Transkei, Ciskei and Basutoland, southern Africa, 1950; development plan, Machakos District, Kenya, 1953; claims file, 1953-1956 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 787).

Howard | John W. | fl 1917-1980s | Captain and colonial administrator

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Madagascar

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel Charles W. Ivey served in the 11th Battalion, King's African Rifles, 1963-1965 and Staff, Kenya, 1965-1966.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, transcript of responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (146) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Ivey | Charles W. | fl 1963-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel Henry L. Jenkyns served in the Signals, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia, Haifa and Kenya, 1941-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (150) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Jenkyns | Henry L. | fl 1941-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Great Britain. Army | Signalling

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Major Robert R. Keal (b 1916), MBE (1946) matriculated from the Municipal Technical College, Hull in 1935 and joined the Coldstream Guards, 1935-1939, with a brief period in the East Riding Constabulary, 1939. A further period at Sandhurst, 1940 was followed by a commission in the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, 1940-1941. He served in the Somaliland Gendarmerie, Italian Somaliland, 1941-1945. He held a civil position in British North Borneo as part of the East Yorkshire Regiment, 1946, serving for part of that period as shipping officer. He returned to Britain in the same year as part of the 6th Infantry Holding Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, was posted as Staff Captain P.A., Headquarters, Mid West District, Shrewsbury, 1946-1947, then served again in the Somalia Gendarmerie till his demobilisation in 1948. In the same year he joined Ruddock & Sons, beer bottlers and wine and spirit merchants of Hull as Sales Manager. He held the same position at J. Peters Ltd., Hull, Carlsberg Lager importers (later Carlsberg Sales Ltd., Goole) from 1956 till his retirement in 1976. In 1949 he married Brenda Mary Hall, with whom he had one son and one daughter.

Mss. autobiographical notes, History of Major R. Keal MBE 1916-1976, with related letters, telegrams, reports, photographs, maps, printed material, etc., arranged as follows

• Autobiographical notes, Somalia bibliography and personal name index to all files
• School; East Riding Constabulary, [1928]-1942
• Coldstream Guards, 1935-1940; Sandhurst, 1940
• 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 1940-1941; Somaliland Gendarmerie, [1940s]
• Somalia, 1942-1945, 1947-1948
• Ogaden disarmament, Somalia, 1944-1945
• Situation reports and operational signals of Ogaden disarmament operations, [c1945]
• Leave, demobilisation, Somali social life, reunions and related personal correspondence 1941-1956
• Civil Affairs Staff Centre (No. 6 Far East Course), 1945-1946; Singapore, 1945-1946; British North Borneo, 1946; Staff Captain P.A. Mid West District, U.K., 1946-1947
• Photocopies of testimonials issued 1935-1976
• Printed materials on British administration of Somalia, [1940s]; various military gazettes, pamphlets, periodicals, handouts, newspapers and maps, also box of films, 20th century

Listed as no. 920 (151) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Keal | Robert R. | fl 1916-1980s | Major

Military police | Somalia

Great Britain. Army. East Yorkshire Regiment

Great Britain. Army. Coldstream Guards

Sandhurst (Berkshire, England). Royal Military College

East Riding Constabulary

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain | Colonies | Sabah | Administration

Somalia | History | 20th century

Major Richard Wildman Kettlewell (b 1910), CMG (1955) joined the Colonial Service as agricultural officer, Nyasaland, 1934. He was a member of the King's African Rifles Reserve of Officers, Nyasaland, 1938-1939. During World War Two he served with the 1/2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, British Somaliland, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ceylon, 1940-1942, and in the 21st East Africa Brigade, Ceylon, 1942-1943. He re-joined the Colonial Service in Nyasaland as a senior officer in 1943, rising to Deputy Director of Agriculture, 1950, Director, 1951, Secretary, National Resources, 1960 and Minister of Lands and Surveys, 1961.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project and curriculum vitae, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (154) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Detailed memorandum on service in agriculture, Nyasaland, 1934-1962 (ref. MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 476 (22)); Memories of a colonial career, account of work in the Colonial Agricultural Service, Nyasaland, photocopied transcript, 1980 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1811); tapes and transcript of interview on experiences in the Colonial Agricultural Service, Nyasaland, 1934-1962, with transcript of colloquium on land and related articles and reports, 1955-1964 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1742 (23)).

Kettlewell | Richard Wildman | fl 1910-1980s | Major and colonial officer

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Malawi | History | 1891-1953

Malawi | History, military

Major Travers R. King, MBE served with the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somaliland, Abyssinia and Madagascar, 1944-1945 and Staff (Courts Martial), 1946-1952.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, transcript of responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; photographs relating to service in the King's African Rifles, [c1937-1946?]; Italian maps of Somalia, 1935.

Listed as no. 920 (157) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

King | Travers R. | fl 1939-1980s | Major

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

Kenya | History, military

Major Bernard J. Lambert, MBE served with the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, 1959-1962.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; copies of letters and press cuttings relating to service with King's African Rifles, [c1960-1962?].

Listed as no. 920 (159) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Lambert | Bernard J. | fl 1959-1980s | Major

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Africa, East | History, military

Colonel Thomas Leahy served in the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1936-1939, 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1939-1940, 2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, British Somaliland, Kenya, Abyssinia, 1940-1941. He was Private Secretary to the Governor of Tanganyika, 1953-1955.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; reports and letters relating to a border incident at Moyale, Kenya, January 1940; photographs relating to service in East Africa, portraits of African King's African Rifles NCOs, [1936-1941]; The Skull of Chief Mkwawa of Uhehe (Dar es Salaam, The Government Printer, 1954).

Listed as no. 920 (163) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Leahy | Thomas | fl 1936-1980s | Colonel and Private Secretary to the Governor of Tanganyika

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

Kenya | History, military

Major Frederick E.R. Long served with the 4th Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Madagascar and the Comores, 1941-1942.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; various other items, including letters and certificates relating to war service, 1934-1953, loose pages from an album, with photographs relating to war service in Africa (mostly Northern and Southern Rhodesia), 1941-1942.

Listed as no. 920 (167) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Long | Frederick E.R. | fl 1941-1980s | Major

Great Britain. Army. Northern Rhodesia Regiment

World War, 1939-1945 | Zambia

World War, 1939-1945 | Zimbabwe

Brigadier M.S. Lush, CB, CBE, MC served in the Sudan Political Service, 1914-1945.

Name card, notes on interview with transcript, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (168A) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Lush | M.S. | fl 1914-1980s | Brigadier

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Egypt | History, military

Sudan | History, military

Sudan | Description and travel

Ethiopia | Description and travel

Sudan | History | 1899-1956

Ethiopia | History | 1889-1974

World War, 1914-1918 | Personal narratives, British

Colonel John H.S. Martin served in 1/1st and 1/6th Battalions, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia and British Somaliland, 1940-1942, and in the Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Kenya, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia and Northern Rhodesia, 1942-1945.

Various papers, 20th century, comprising personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; map of routes taken during Abyssinian Campaign with 1/1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, with itinerary, 1941; xerox copy of personal history, dated 1944, of 96 Independent Garrison Company, Northern Rhodesia Regiment; notebook containing this history with other personal notes; captioned press photographs of the Abyssinian campaign; album of photographs relating to war service in Africa.

Listed as no. 920 (179) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Reports, orders, memoranda, notices, etc. relating to service in 1/1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, 96 Independent Garrison Company, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, and 9th (TT) Battalion, King's African Rifles, 1940-1946 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1882).

Martin | John H.S. | fl 1940-1980s | Colonel

Great Britain. Army. Northern Rhodesia Regiment. 96 Independent Garrison Company

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

Africa, East | Description and travel | Views

Edward A. Mayne, ERD served in the Signals, Kenya, Somaliland, Ethiopia and Madagascar, 1939-1944.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (182) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Mayne | Edward A. | fl 1939-1980s | army officer

Great Britain. Army | Signalling

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

Colonel John G. Mileham, MA served in the 6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Tanganyika and Kenya, 1935-1940.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, script of a lecture by Mileham on Tanganyika and the 6th Battalion, King's African Rifles with transcript, [1978-c1984].

Listed as no. 920 (185) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Mileham | John G. | fl 1935-1980s | Colonel

Tanzania | History, military

Tanzania | Description and travel

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Kenneth A. Moore served with the 71st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Ceylon, India and Somaliland, 1942-1945.

Various papers, 1942-[1982], comprising correspondence with Rhodes House, account of service with King's African Rifles (with especially detailed account of action in Burma), dated September 1945, with various notices, instructions, and xerox copies of The Campaign in Burma (London, HMSO, 1946), maps of Burma, 1942-1944.

Listed as no. 920 (192A) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Moore | Kenneth A. | fl 1942-1980s | army officer

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | South Asia

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

Colonel St. L. Morris, OBE served with the 4th Regiment, King's African Rifles, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Abyssinia, 1937-1944, and in the 1st Battalion, Nigerian Regiment, 1948-1951.

Address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (194A) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Morris | St. L. | fl 1937-1980s | Colonel

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Anthony R.C. Mott served in the 2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland, 1950-1951 and the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Northern Rhodesia, Malaya and Nyasaland, 1951-1955.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (196) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Mott | Anthony R.C. | fl 1950-1980s | Major

Africa, Central | History, military

Malaysia | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel H. Moyse-Bartlett, MBE was the official historian of the King's African Rifles.

Papers relating to a history of the King's African Rifles, written for inclusion in the Famous Regiments series (London, Leo Cooper Ltd., [1970s]) and covering the post-1945 period

• Notes from various sources and a manuscript draft, [1970s]
• Notes, and copies of letters requesting information for the history, [1970s]
• Typescript draft, [1970s]
• Related notes and correspondence, 1972-1973

Papers relating to King's African Rifles - A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1945, by Moyse-Bartlett (Aldershot, Gale & Polden, 1956)

• Volume of maps, nd.
• Related personal correspondence, 1955-1970
• Correspondence, 1952-1963, relating to the publication contract

Other papers

• Notes and papers relating to the Regiment's history, [c1960s]
• Correspondence, 1952-1972, relating to the Regiment's trust fund, uniforms, history, etc.
• Records of officers serving 1890-1914, nd.
• Records of officers seconded to the military forces of East and Central Africa, 1890-1914
• List of Indian Army officers serving in East Africa, nd.
• Related printed material, 1953-1973
• Card index of officers, 1890 onwards

Listed as no. 920 (197) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Moyse-Bartlett | H. | fl [1970s] | Lieut.-Colonel

Ashanti War, 1900

Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan's Rebellion, Somalia, 1900-1920

World War, 1914-1918 | Africa, East

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

World War, 1939-1945 | Madagascar

Africa | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Central Africa Regiment

Great Britain. Army. Uganda Rifles

Great Britain. Army. East Africa Rifles

John C. Murray served during World War Two as transport officer, Uganda and Kenya, with the East African Army Service Corps, as well as with the 2/1st Battalion, King's African Rifles and the East African Corps of Military Police.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (199) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Murray | John C. | fl 1941-1980s | army officer

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. East African Army Service Corps

Brigadier Donald H. Nott, DSO, OBE, MC, DL was educated at Marlborough College and Sandhurst, and commissioned to the Worcestershire Regiment in 1928. He served in Germany, Malta, China and India with the 2nd Battalion. Then, with the 1st Battalion, he took part in the Arab Rebellion, 1938 and in the Abyssinian and Western Desert Campaigns of 1940-1942 in World War Two. In 1945 he commanded the Regiment's 9th Battalion. He was Commandant of Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School, Chester, 1950-1952 and Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Uganda and Kenya, 1952-1954, during which he was engaged in operations against the Mau Mau. On returning to England he commanded 158 Infantry Brigade (TA) at Lichfield, of which the 7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment (TA) formed a part. He attended a course at N.A.T.O. Defence College, Paris, 1958, undertook a short tour of duty at the War Office, 1959 and retired from the Regular Army, 1960. After his retirement he served as Assistant Civil Defence Officer for Worcestershire and County Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. He was appointed Colonel of the Worcestershire Regiment in 1961.

Various papers, comprising personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, digest of personal service, [1978-1984]; map of Jinja, 1945; script of talk, and press cuttings, [1953], concerning welfare in the King's African Rifles; souvenir programme of the presentation of colours to the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, 1954; letter from Buckingham Palace, 1954, about the presentation, with extracts from other related letters and orders of parade; letters and press cuttings relating to the Mau Mau campaign, 1953; short history of the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, lists of CO's, letters and other papers concerning the Battalion, 20th century; letters and press cuttings, [1954], relating to the surrender of General Von Lettow Vorbeck to Major Brian Hawkins in World War One; souvenir programme of the ceremony of trooping the colour by the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, May 1937; photographs of the presentation of colours, [1954] and of the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles in general.

Listed as no. 920 (202) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Nott | Donald H. | fl 1952-1980s | Brigadier

World War, 1914-1918 | Africa

Uganda | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles. (Uganda) Battalion, 4th

Kenya | History | Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960

Lieut.-Colonel John C.T. Peddie, OBE, MC served with the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Uganda, 1956-1959.

Various papers, comprising personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; souvenir brochure about the King's African Rifles, [c1956]; Notes on Some Colonial Badges by H.G.Harper, from Military History Society Bulletin (Vol. VII, No. 26, November 1956), also drawings of some East Africa Army badges; notes on the history of the King's African Rifles regiments and other African forces; drawings and photographs of African soldiers; cards showing the emblems of various African regiments; photograph of the Queen Mother with King's African Regiment officers.

Listed as no. 920 (213) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Peddie | John C.T. | fl 1956-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army | Insignia

Brigadier Harold S. Pinder, CBE, MC served with the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, British East Africa, 1913-1914.

Photostat letters home, originally written 1912-1914.

The original letters are held at the Imperial War Museum, London.

Listed as no. 920 (215*) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Pinder | Harold S. | fl 1913-1980s | Brigadier

Africa, East | History, military

Africa, East | Description and travel

Safaris | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major William H. Reeve served with the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland, 1964-1966.

Various papers, comprising personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; Malawi government notice about a rebel; press cuttings relating to Malawi; souvenir programme for the funeral parade for the Governor of Malawi, Sir Glyn Jones, July 1966; Malawi newspapers and periodicals, 1966.

Listed as no. 920 (225) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Reeve | William H. | fl 1964-1980s | Major

Malawi | History | 1964-

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Brigadier Meyric H. ap Rhys Pryce served on Staff, Tanganyika and Nyasaland, 1953-1954.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (226) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

ap Rhys Pryce | Meyric H. | fl 1953-1980s | Brigadier

Africa | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Professor A.C.F. Rivet, MA, FSA, served in the Signals, Kenya, 1942-1945.

Address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to part of aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; letters written home to parents from East Africa (one xeroxed), 1942-1945; notes on Kenyan economy by Rivet, [1945-1946].

Listed as no. 920 (229) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Rivet | A.C.F. | fl 1942-1980s | Professor and army officer

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Uganda | Description and travel

Kenya | Description and travel

Great Britain. Army | Signalling

Lieut.-Colonel George Gordon Robson served with the 1/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Tanganyika, Kenya and Abyssinia, 1938-1941, the 6th Battalion, Tanganyika, 1941-1942, 1/6th Battalion, Somalia and Madagascar, 1942-1943, the East Africa Tactical School, Kenya, 1943-1944, 12th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya and Tanganyika, 1944, and 3/6th Battalion, Burma and India, 1944-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (231) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Robson | George Gordon | fl 1938-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Tanzania | History, military

World War, 1939-1945 | Tanzania

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel Richard C. Sampson served in the 1/1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somaliland and Ethiopia, 13th Battalion, Madagascar and 2/2nd Battalion, Ethiopia, and the 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Northern Rhodesia, 1940-1956.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, aide-memoire with brief notes inserted, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (239) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Sampson | Richard C. | fl 1940-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Northern Rhodesia Regiment

Lieut.-Colonel Michael B. Scott served in the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1955-1959.

Various papers, comprising personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, annotated aide-memoire; typescript article, [c1980s?], by Scott, Kenya Game Book 1955-1958; articles from the Household Brigade Magazine on the King's African Rifles and the Nigerian Regiment, 1957-1958; issues of The Journal of the King's African Rifles, 1957-1959, 1961.

Listed as no. 920 (241) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

A month of mutiny by Lieut.-Colonel M.B. Scott, Lieut.-Colonel J.M. Clavering and Major D.C. Prior, 1984, a typescript account of Scots Guards activities during the January 1964 mutiny, rebellion and coup d'état in East Africa (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1891).

Scott | Michael B. | fl 1955-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Kenya | History, military

Safaris | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Hugh Stanley Senior was educated at Weymouth College and at Hertford College, Oxford, taking a post as a cadet in the Colonial Service, Tanganyika Territory, 1930 and assistant district officer, 1932. He served with the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland, c1936-1939 and 6th Battalion, Tanganyika, Sudan and Abyssinia, 1939-1941. He became district officer, Tanganyika, 1942, senior, 1950, interpreter, Kisukuma, then Secretary, Development Commission, 1947.

Address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project and addendum to responses, replies to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (243) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Memorandum on service in the colonial administration in Tanganyika, 1930-1953, with related photographs and article (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1738 (38)).

Senior | Hugh Stanley | fl 1908-1980s | colonial officer

Africa | History, military

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Reginald H. Sheldon served in the Signals, Mauritius and East Africa, 1943-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (245) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Sheldon | Reginald H. | fl 1943-1980s | army officer

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

Great Britain. Army | Signalling

Professor George Shepperson served with the 13th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Tanganyika, Ceylon, India and Burma, 1943-1946.

Various papers, [c1945-1984], including address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project; bibliography for a talk on the King's African Rifles by Shepperson; photographs of Shepperson and the 13th Battalion, 1945; America through Africa and Asia by Shepperson, from the Journal of American Studies (Vol. 14, No. 1, April 1980).

Listed as no. 920 (246) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Shepperson | George | fl 1943-1980s | Professor and army officer

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Blacks | Race identity

Major John G. Shields, TD served in the 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Kenya, Somaliland, Abyssinia, Ceylon, Burma and India, 1940-1945.

Personal data sheet, copy letter from Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (247) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Shields | John G. | fl 1940-1980s | Major

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

Great Britain. Army. Northern Rhodesia Regiment

Alexander D. Shirreff, MC served in the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somaliland, Abyssinia, Madagascar and Burma, 1940-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, transcript of responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; xeroxed race card for a meeting in Gimma, South-West Abyssinia, November 1941.

Listed as no. 920 (248) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Shirreff | Alexander D. | fl 1940-1980s | army officer

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Abyssinia

Horse racing | Africa

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major John Smale served with the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya. 1949-1952, 1955-1958.

Address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (253) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Smale | John | fl 1949-1980s | Major

Kenya | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Colonel Edward J.C. Spanton, MBE served with the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya and Malaya, 1950-1953 and the 6th Battalion, Tanganyika, 1956-1959.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; newsletters, 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, December 1953, 6th Battalion, January-December 1959; The Journal of the King's African Rifles, January & September 1957, July & December 1959; souvenir programme of the presentation of Colours by the Tanganyika Governor to the 6th and 26th Battalions, September 1955.

Listed as no. 920 (255) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Typescript account of Operations in Malaya, 1952-1953 (ref. MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 263).

Spanton | Edward J.C. | fl 1950-1980s | Colonel

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel P.M.R. Stacpoole served in the East Africa Artillery, Kenya, c1952-1955.

Address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, [1978-1984]; xerox copy of article, [c1960s], by Captain H.A.W.J. Stacpoole, MC, A Short Historical Background to some of the exhibits in the Regimental Museum, Nigerian Military Forces.

Listed as no. 920 (256) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Stacpoole | P.M.R. | fl [1952-1980s] | Lieut.-Colonel

Nigeria | History, military

Regimental Museum, Nigerian Military Forces

Brigadier C.H. Stoneley, OBE served with Signal Section, Northern Brigade, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Uganda and Abyssinia, 1935-1941.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, list of photographs accompanying responses, [1978-1984]; photographs relating to service in Africa; article by Stoneley, Memories of The King's African Rifles in The Journal of the Royal Signals Institution, Vol. XIV, No. 6, Winter 1980.

Listed as no. 920 (263) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Stoneley | C.H. | fl 1935-1980s | Brigadier

Africa, East | History, military

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army | Signalling

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Albert E. Swaine served with 3/4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Madagascar, Tanganyika, Ceylon, Burma and India, 1942-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, photographs relating to service in the King's African Rifles, [1942-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (265) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Swaine | Albert E. | fl 1942-1980s | Major

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Sir Anthony C.C. Swann, CMG, OBE served with 2/3rd Battalion and 5/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Abyssinia and Somalia, 1940-1944, and as Minister for Defence, Kenya, 1960-1963.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, transcript of interview, note on the rise of the Mau Mau, by Swann, with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (268) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Tapes and transcripts of two interviews on service in colonial administration, Kenya, 1936-1963 (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1717 (149A); various items relating mainly to the Mau Mau emergency, including papers on the rise of Mau Mau donated by Swann (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1915).

Swann | Anthony C.C. | fl 1940-1980s | Sir | Minister for Defence, Kenya

Africa, East | History, military

Great Britain | Colonies | Kenya | Administration

Kenya | History | 1895-1963

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Agriculture | Kenya

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Captain Carl A.H. Swift served with the Kenya Regiment and 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, East Africa and Burma, 1939-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; printed operation orders, battle procedure and other directives, [c1940s?]; Rubbing Along in Burmese (India. Army. Directorate of Welfare and Education. 1944); maps of Burma, 1943-1944; various cloth and metal badges, 20th century.

Listed as no. 920 (270) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Swift | Carl A.H. | fl 1939-1980s | Captain

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel Ivor G. Thomas served with the Royal Army Service Corps and East African Army Service Corps, Kenya, 1947-1952.

Address card, personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, memorandum on service in Africa with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (271A) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Thomas | Ivor G. | fl 1947-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Kenya | History, military

Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Service Corps

Great Britain. Army. East African Army Service Corps

Lieut.-Colonel Sir Peile Thompson, OBE served with the 26th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Mauritius, Kenya and Tanganyika, 1954-1956.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; photostat copy of Thompson's history, [1950s], of the 26th battalion, King's African Rifles.

Listed as no. 920 (273) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Thompson | Peile | fl 1954-1980s | Sir | Lieut.-Colonel

Kenya | History, military

Tanzania | History, military

Mauritius | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Henry A. Walker served with the 6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Tanganyika and Sudan, 1939-1940, 3/6th Battalion, Tanganyika, Kenya and Somaliland, 1940-1941, and Staff, Kenya and Tanganyika, 1941-1945.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, photographs relating to service with the King's African Rifles, [c1939-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (284) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Walker | Henry A. | fl 1939-1980s | Major

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Captain James Walker served with 1/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, East Africa (including Italian Somaliland and Abyssinia), c1940-1942.

Address card, correspondence between Oxford Development Records Project and Walker's executor; account by Walker of the advance of the 22nd East Africa Infantry Brigade from Garissa to Gimma (Italian Somaliland) in 1941; list of races to be run at Enda Jesus, August 1941; photographs relating to the 22nd East Africa Infantry Brigade advance, 1941; account of the advance of the 11th East Africa Division from the River Tana to Addis Ababa in 1941, with relevant photographs. responses to aide-memoire, photographs relating to service with the King's African Rifles, [c1939-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (285) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Walker | James | fl c1940-1942 | Captain

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Charles St. J. Wallis served with the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Somalia, Kenya and Uganda, 1949-1955.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (286) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Wallis | Charles St. J. | fl 1949-1980s | Major

Africa | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel J.E.D. Watson, DSO served in the 1st and 2nd Battalions, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland and Tanganyika, 1935-1939, 2nd Battalion, East Africa (including British Somaliland, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia), Ceylon and Burma, 1939-1945, 4th Battalion, Kenya, 1946-1948, and 2nd and 4th Battalions, Uganda, Italian Somaliland and Kenya, 1949-1953.

Address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, proforma on service with the King's African Rifles, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (288) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Watson | J.E.D. | fl 1935-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa | History, military

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Arthur S. Watts, MD, MRCP served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, Kenya and Madagascar, 1944-1946.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (290) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Watts | Arthur S. | fl 1944-1980s | Major

Kenya | History, military

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps

Major R.D. West served in the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Uganda, 1958-1960.

Address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (291) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

West | R.D. | fl 1958-1980s | Major

Uganda | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Major Geoffrey B. Whitworth served in the Somalia Gendarmerie, Italian Somaliland, 1941-1942, 5/6th and 6th Battalions, King's African Rifles, Tanganyika, 1944-1946, Staff, Mauritius and British Somaliland, 1947-1948, and 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya and Uganda, 1948-1951.

Personal data sheet, letter from Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; telegram, proclamation and photograph relating to service in Africa; photographs relating to African service, with list; souvenir issue of Jambo, final edition, November 1945; programme for Presentation of Colours to the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles by the Duke of Gloucester, 1950.

Listed as no. 920 (295) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Whitworth | Geoffrey B. | fl 1941-1980s | Major

Africa | History, military

World War, 1939-1945 | Kenya

World War, 1939-1945 | Somalia

World War, 1939-1945 | Periodicals

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Military police | Somalia

Colonel Edmund D.H. Williams served with the Medical Staff, Kenya, 1955-1958.

Personal data sheet, letter from Oxford Development Records Project, memorandum on African service with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (299) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Williams | Edmund, D.H. | fl 1955-1980s | Colonel

Kenya | History, military

Diseases and history | Africa, Sub-Saharan

Military hospitals

Colonel Humphrey P. Williams, OBE served with the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland and Tanganyika, 1931-1936, 6th Battalion, Tanganyika, 1936-1937, 13th Battalion, India, 1944-1945, and 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia and Malaya, 1949-1953.

• Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, brief responses to aide-memoire with transcript, transcript of interview with inserts, [1978-1984]
• Xerox copy of a history of the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, up to 1918, by Williams, 20th century
• Note on Karonga Cemetery, Malawi, 1979
• Xeroxed letters and notes, 1952-1954, relating to African service and to 1st Battalion history
• Force Orders in Nyasaland, 1899-1902, with accompanying letter, 1953
• Xerox copies of notes on the crossing of the Omo Bottego, Abyssinia by 1/1st Battalion and the 23rd Nigerian Brigade, with sketch maps, [c1942?]
• Xerox copy of a brief on the King's African Rifles and training of Askaris, 1953
• Notes for a broadcast talk on African Soldiers by Williams, 1953
• Account of an episode involving a runaway buffalo in Tanganyika, 1935
• Williams' diary of the voyage out to East Africa in 1931 and of a march of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, King's African Rifles, 1933
• Notes, [1950s?], on the movements of Northern Rhodesia Regiment and King's African Rifles battalions, 1939-1954, on the badges and commanding officers of the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, and on the history of the 1st Battalion 1919-1939
• Incomplete narrative on a military operation in Africa, 20th century
• Xeroxed map, 1942, of southern and central Africa
• Xeroxed newspaper cutting, [1940s?], on the Chase of the Mad Mullah
• Photographs of 1st Battalion King's African Rifles officers, [1951-1953?] with notes of names and a letter from Williams to the Oxford Development Records Project, [1979-c1982]
• Photographs and negatives relating to King's African Rifles service, [c1950s?]
• Miscellaneous papers, [1940s], and a periodical, Ulemu, No. 10, September 1945, relating to war service

Listed as no. 920 (300) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Williams | Humphrey P. | fl 1931-1980s | Colonel

Zambia | History, military

Malawi | History, military

Tanzania | History, military

Somalia | History, military

Africa | History, military

Africa, Southern | History | 1899-1975

World War, 1914-1918 | Malawi

World War, 1914-1918 | Tanzania

World War, 1914-1918 | Mozambique

World War, 1939-1945 | Ethiopia

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa

World War, 1939-1945 | Asia

Maxamad Cabdulle Xasan's Rebellion, Somalia, 1900-1920

Malawi | History | Chilembwe Rebellion, 1915

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut. John A. Williams served with the 23rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1952-1953.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (301) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Williams | John A. | fl 1952-1980s | Lieut.

Kenya | History, military

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Lieut.-Colonel Eric C.T. Wilson, VC served with the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Tanganyika, 1937-1939, the Somaliland Camel Corps, 1939-1940, 4/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya and Ceylon, 1943-1944, 11th Battalion, King's African Rifles, India and Burma, 1944-1945, I.T.C., Uganda, 1945-1946, and 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Northern Rhodesia, 1946-1949.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Listed as no. 920 (303) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Wilson | Eric C.T. | fl 1937-1980s | Lieut.-Colonel

Africa | History, military

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

Great Britain. Army. Northern Rhodesia Regiment

Great Britain. Army. Somaliland Camel Corps

Major Peter E.D. Wilson, MC served with the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somalia, Abyssinia, Ceylon, Burma and India, 1939-1946.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; scripts for three lectures on the history of the King's African Rifles, [c1965?]; Brief History of the 4th (U) Bn The K.A.R. (Nairobi, The East African Standard Ltd., 1951).

Listed as no. 920 (304) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Wilson | Peter E.D. | fl 1939-1980s | Major

Africa | History, military

World War, 1914-1918 | Africa

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

World War, 1939-1945 | Burma

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles

George K. Young, CB, CMG, MBE served with the King's African Rifles, 1940-[1941?], and as intelligence officer, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia and Kenya, 1942-1943.

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; xerox copy of letter of appointment to the King's African Rifles from the Colonial Office, 1940 and of diary of wartime experiences, [1941]; map of 12 African Division's operations at Gondar, 1941; photographs relating to King's African Rifles service, [1940-1941?].

Listed as no. 920 (309) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Young | George K. | fl 1941-1980s | wartime intelligence officer

World War, 1939-1945 | Africa, East

World War, 1939-1945 | Intelligence service | Great Britain

Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles