Papers of Colonel Humphrey P. Williams, OBE

Title

Papers of Colonel Humphrey P. Williams, OBE

Shelfmark

MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (300) (Box 19)

Summary

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

Date

20th century

Language

English

Physical extent

375 ff., 1 item

Subject

World War, 1939-1945 -- Africa

World War, 1914-1918 -- Mozambique

Zambia -- History, military

World War, 1914-1918 -- Malawi

World War, 1939-1945 -- Asia

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

World War, 1914-1918 -- Tanzania

Somalia -- History, military

Tanzania -- History, military

Malawi -- History -- Chilembwe Rebellion, 1915

Africa, Southern -- History -- 1899-1975

Africa -- History, military

World War, 1939-1945 -- Ethiopia

Malawi -- History, military