Papers of George H.W. Goode, CBE, DSO

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (109) (Box 5)
  • Dates of Creation
      [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      22 ff.

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project,memorandum on service in Africa, [1978-1984].

Administrative / Biographical History

George H.W. Goode, CBE, DSO served in the 1st Battalion, Northern RhodesiaRegiment, Kenya and British Somaliland, 1937-1940, and Headquarters, EastAfrica Command, Kenya, Italian Somaliland and Abyssinia, 1940-1941. He servedwith the 28th East Africa Infantry Brigade, British Somaliland, 1941-1942, 13thBattalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1943 and 2nd Battalion, NorthernRhodesia Regiment, Madagascar, 1944, then the 1st Battalion, Rhodesian AfricanRifles, Kenya, Ceylon and Burma, 1944-1946, 1st Battalion, Northern RhodesiaRegiment, Malaya, 1953-1956, and the 70th Battalion, King's African Rifles,Kenya, 1958-1961.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (109) in Manuscript Collections in RhodesHouse Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library,1996).

Geographical Names