Personal recollections of Humphrey Stronge

Photocopied typescript recollections, extracted from memoirs, of the campaign in the Northern Cameroons and service in the Yola Column, 1914-1915 (nd).

Humphrey Cecil Travell Stronge (1891-?), a Brigadier, was educated at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and seconded as an officer to the West African Frontier Force in 1914. He served in the Cameroons, German East Africa, and the Western Front, 1914-1918. Later he was the British Military Attache in Prague, 1938. Others of his papers have been deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Imperial War Museum, London.

Access is unrestricted.

The papers were placed in the Collection by H.R. Stilwell (son-in-law) in 1977. See Research Correspondence File.

In English.

West Africa catalogue (Cameroons and Togoland) http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/liddle/index.htm

Microfilmed.

Other papers of Brigadier H.C.T. Stronge have been deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Imperial War Museum, London.