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 duringAbyssinian Campaign with 1/1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, with itinerary,1941; xerox copy of personal history, dated 1944, of 96 Independent GarrisonCompany, Northern Rhodesia Regiment; notebook containing this history withother personal notes; captioned press photographs of the Abyssinian campaign;album of photographs relating to war service in Africa.
Papers of Colonel John H.S. Martin
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- Dates of Creation[1940s-1984]
- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description81 ff., 2 items
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Colonel John H.S. Martin served in 1/1st and 1/6th Battalions, King's AfricanRifles, Kenya, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia and British Somaliland, 1940-1942,and in the Northern Rhodesia Regiment, Kenya, Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia andNorthern Rhodesia, 1942-1945.
Other Finding Aids
Listed as no. 920 (179) in Manuscript Collections in RhodesHouse Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library,1996).