Papers of Major Travers R. King, MBE

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (157) (Box 10)
  • Dates of Creation
      1935-[1984]
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      61 ff., 1 item

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project,transcript of responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; photographs relating to service in theKing's African Rifles, [c1937-1946?]; Italian maps of Somalia, 1935.

Administrative / Biographical History

Major Travers R. King, MBE served with the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles,Kenya, Somaliland, Abyssinia and Madagascar, 1944-1945 and Staff (Courts Martial),1946-1952.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (157) in Manuscript Collections in RhodesHouse Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library,1996).

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