Papers of Colonel Edward J.C. Spanton, MBE, 1953-1959, [1978-1984]
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.
Dates
- Creation: 1953-1959, [1978-1984]
Extent
24 ff., 5 items
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (255) (Box 16)
Biographical / Historical
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.
Other Finding Aids
Listed as no. 920 (255) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
Subject
- Spanton | Edward J.C. | fl 1950-1980s | Colonel (Person)
- Great Britain | Army | King's African Rifles (Organisation)
Repository Details
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