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78241. Mss Eur R188

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Mss Eur R188
Title:
Mary Eliott Hunter papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording, made 1975, by Mary Eliott Hunter, wife of Charles Frederick Hunter (1887-1973), Indian Service of Engineers 1909-40, reading from letters, dated 1922-29, from herself and her parents describing their impressions of India; also recollections by her daughter Frances Eliott Hunter (b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1894-1983
Extent:
2 cassettes

78242. Mss Eur R189

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R189
Title:
Roy Edward King Nissen papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by Roy Edward King Nissen (b 1905), on his life and career in India as a member of the European domiciled community and as an Accounts Officer in the Indian Railways 1924-60.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1960
Extent:
4 cassettes

78243. Mss Eur R190

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R190
Title:
Francis Calder Ford Robertson papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by Francis Calder (`Henry') Ford Robertson (b 1901), on his life and work as a member of the Indian Forest Service, United Provinces 1924-47.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924-1947
Extent:
3 cassettes

78244. Mss Eur R191

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R191
Title:
Nora Aline de Courcy Ford Robertson papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by (Nora) Aline de Courcy Ford Robertson (`nee' Ireland) (b 1914), of her recollections of childhood in India 1914-20, and of her life as a young woman in India from 1933 and as the wife of Edward Frederic Gilbert Chapman (b 1895), Indian Police, United Pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1947
Extent:
2 cassettes

78245. Mss Eur R192

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R192
Title:
Geraldine Blanche Wright papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording of interview, given 1989, by Geraldine Blanche Wright (1932-97), describing her childhood and adolescence in Burma 1932-42, India 1942-46, and Burma again 1946-48, with an account of a return visit to Burma in 1977.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1948
Extent:
2 cassettes

78246. Mss Eur R193

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R193
Title:
Oral Biography papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recordings of interviews, conducted Nov 1987-Jan 1988, by Gillian Wright on behalf of Trevor Royle for his book `The Last Days of the Raj' (London 1989), in which fourteen Indians discuss their personal recollections of British rule including the Quit India movement, independence, and the Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1947
Extent:
13 cassettes

78247. Mss Eur R194

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R194
Title:
Lionel Heathcote Landon papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording of interview, given 1990, by Lt-Col Lionel Heathcote Landon (b 1907) British Army, Royal Artillery 1929, describing childhood memories of India 1907-13, and service on the North-West Frontier 1930-34 and in Assam and Burma 1942-45.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1945
Extent:
2 cassettes

78248. Mss Eur R195

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R195
Title:
Ralph Esmond Selby Tanner papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording of interview, given 1990, by Ralph Esmond Selby Tanner (b 1921), British Army private in Scotland, Crete and Burma 1939-42; 2nd Lt in retreat from Burma 1942; War Office 1943-45; British Military Government, Burma 1945-46; Burma Frontier Service 1946-48.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1947
Extent:
4 cassettes

78249. Mss Eur R196

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R196
Title:
Douglas William Edge papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording of interview, given 1990, by Douglas William Edge (b 1918), NCO in Royal Engineers 1939-42, Officer in Royal Armoured Corps 1942-46, Captain from 1944, chiefly on his experiences as Administration Officer for British Army depot near Poona 1944-46.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1946
Extent:
2 cassettes

78250. Mss Eur R197

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur R197
Title:
Margaret Alice Budd papers.
Scope & Content:
Tape recording of interview, given 1990, by Margaret Alice Budd (b 1914) on her upbringing, work in England, and marriage in 1944 to Bernard Wilfred Budd, Indian Civil Service; her teaching activities in a Karachi Grammar School before independence; and her life in Pakistan including her presiden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1951
Extent:
3 cassettes

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