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World War, 1939-1945 -- Kenya

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Single Item

Kenya Armoured Car Regiment

Photocopy of a typescript History of the Kenya Armoured Car Regiment, 1939-1941
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2241
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 20th cent.
File

Papers of Alexander D. Shirreff, MC, 20th century

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.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (248) (Box 16)
Extents: 35 Leaves
Dates: 20th century
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Papers of Captain Carl A. H. Swift, 20th century

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.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (270) (Box 17)
Extents: 24 ff., 6 items
Dates: 20th century
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Papers of Captain John W. Howard, [1978-1984]

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984].
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (143) (Box 5)
Extents: 35 Leaves
Dates: [1978-1984]
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Papers of Captain Patrick L. Edwards, 20th century

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.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (80) (Box 4)
Extents: 24 Leaves
Dates: 20th century
Single Item

Papers of Clarice de Burgh West

Newscuttings of letters from Clarice de Burgh West to the Editor of the East African Standard on current events, 1940-1961.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2359
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 1940-1961
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Papers of Col. Desmond J. Bannister, MBE, MC, [1978-1984]

Personal data sheet, responses to aide-memoire, account of 1940-1941 East African campaign, [1978-1984].
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (7) (Box 1)
Extents: 100 Leaves
Dates: [1978-1984]
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Papers of Colonel John H.S. Martin, [1940s-1984]

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 theā€¦
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (179) (Box 11)
Extents: 81 ff., 2 items
Dates: [1940s-1984]
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Papers of Colonel Thomas Leahy, [1936-1954], [1978-1984]

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).
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (163) (Box 10)
Extents: 74 Leaves
Dates: [1936-1954], [1978-1984]
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Papers of C.W. Catt, [1936]-1987

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].
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (39) (Box 3)
Extents: 309 Leaves
Dates: [1936]-1987
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Papers of Edward A. Mayne, ERD, [1978-1984]

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (182) (Box 11)
Extents: 81 Leaves
Dates: [1978-1984]
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Papers of Kenneth A. Moore, 1942-[1984]

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.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (192A) (Box 11)
Extents: 92 ff., 7 items
Dates: 1942-[1984]
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Papers of Major Arthur S. Watts, MD, MRCP, [1978-1984]

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (290) (Box 18)
Extents: 26 Leaves
Dates: [1978-1984]
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Papers of Major Edward G.C. Haigh, 1941-1942, [1978-1984]

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).
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (122) (Box 5)
Extents: 96 Leaves
Dates: 1941-1942, [1978-1984]
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Papers of Major Geoffrey B. Whitworth, [c1941-1984]

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.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (295) (Box 18)
Extents: 107 Leaves
Dates: [c1941-1984]
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Papers of Major John G. Shields, TD, [1978-1984]

Personal data sheet, copy letter from Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (247) (Box 16)
Extents: 26 Leaves
Dates: [1978-1984]
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Papers of Major Travers R. King, MBE, 1935-[1984]

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.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (157) (Box 10)
Extents: 61 ff., 1 item
Dates: 1935-[1984]
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Papers of Patrick W.G. Barnes, 20th century

Personal data sheet, address card, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, lecture prospectus and account of East African campaigns, 20th century.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (8) (Box 1)
Extents: 30 Leaves
Dates: 20th century
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Papers of Reginald H. Sheldon, [1978-1984]

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (245) (Box 16)
Extents: 92 Leaves
Dates: [1978-1984]
Collection

Papers of W.F.P. Kelly

Diary of travels in charge of a mobile cinema, Kenya, 1944; three volumes of memoirs of service, Kenya, 1936-1963; four volumes of travel diaries, Kenya, 1981-1982, 1989, 1992, 1996; one travel diary, South Africa, 1990; report by Miss S. Brodribb Pughe on the wells of the Northern District, Kenya, 1962.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: 1944-[1996]