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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Tape recording of interview, given 1990, by Sao Hkun Hkio, Sawbwa of Mong Mit 1937-48, on his childhood and education in Burma and England, marriage to an Englishwoman, and experiences as Sawbwa under British rule, Japanese occupation, and British re-occupation.