Papers of Brigadier Donald H. Nott, DSO, OBE, MC, DL | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Papers of Brigadier Donald H. Nott, DSO, OBE, MC, DL

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MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (202) (Box 15)

Summary

Various papers, comprising personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, digest of personal service, [1978-1984]; map of Jinja, 1945; script of talk, and press cuttings, [1953], concerning welfare in the King's African Rifles; souvenir programme of the presentation of colours to the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, 1954; letter from Buckingham Palace, 1954, about the presentation, with extracts from other related letters and orders of parade; letters and press cuttings relating to the Mau Mau campaign, 1953; short history of the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, lists of CO's, letters and other papers concerning the Battalion, 20th century; letters and press cuttings, [1954], relating to the surrender of General Von Lettow Vorbeck to Major Brian Hawkins in World War One; souvenir programme of the ceremony of trooping the colour by the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, May 1937; photographs of the presentation of colours, [1954] and of the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles in general.