Papers of Major Frank Flory, MBE

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (95) (Box 4)
  • Dates of Creation
      20th century
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      25 ff.

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development RecordsProject, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984]; various other papers, 20th century, comprising invitations to Somaliindependence and Tanganyika anniversary of independence celebrations,photographs of presentation of colours to the 2nd Battalion, TanganyikaRegiment (with programme), Christmas card, and General Smuts'Campaign in East Africa by Brig.-General John Henry Verinder Crowe (London, J. Murray, 1918).

Administrative / Biographical History

Major Frank Flory, MBE served with the 23rd Battalion, King's African Rifles,Kenya, 1952, the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Malaya and Kenya,1953-1961, 6th Battalion, King's African Rifles/1st Battalion, Tanganyika Rifles,Tanganyika, 1961-1962, and 2nd Battalion, Tanganyika Rifles, 1962-1964.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (95) in Manuscript Collections in RhodesHouse Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library,1996).