Papers of Sir Anthony C.C. Swann, CMG, OBE, [1978-1984]
File
MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (268) (Box 17)
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].
Dates
- [1978-1984]
Extent
70 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (268) (Box 17)
Biographical / Historical
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.
Other Finding Aids
Listed as no. 920 (268) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
- Africa, East -- History, military
- Agriculture -- Kenya
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Kenya -- Administration
- Great Britain | Army | King's African Rifles
- Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963
- Swann | Sir | Anthony C.C. | fl 1940-1980s | Knight | Minister for Defence, Kenya
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Africa, East
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