Kenya: CATLING, Sir Richard, CMG (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George), OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire), QPM (Queen's Police Medal), CPM (Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry), c. 1977-1985

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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1784/IX (21)

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Comprises:

folder 21A: (fols. i-xxx) career summary and correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project (ODRP); (fols. 1-75) responses to aide-mémoire, c. 1954-1965
folder 21B (fols. 1-45) photographs relating to police service in Kenya c. 1954-1965
folder 21C (fols. 1-26) photographs illustrating the social life in Kenya during Catling's service there, 1953-1955.

Folder 21D (items 1-6):

(item 1) Kenya Police pamphlet's Tracker Combat Operations, 1955
(item 2) Kenya Police pamphlet, The Kenya Police Air Wing, 1955
(item 3) Kenya Government pamphlet, The Treatment of Captured and Surrendered Terrorists, 1955
(item 4) Kenya Government Sessional Paper, The Implementations of the Recommendations of the Kenya Police Commission, 1953
(item 5) report of the Kenya Police Commission, 1953
(item 6) Malaya (Malaysia) Government pamphlet, Food Denial Operations, 1953.

Folder 21E: Kenya Police Standing Orders, 1962.

Dates

5 folders

MSS. Afr. s. 1784/IX (21)

Career details:

previously Palestine (1935-1948) and Malaya (Malaysia) (Superintendent to Senior Assistant Commissioner, 1948-1954)
Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner, Kenya, 1954-1963
Inspector-General, Kenya, 1963-1965.