Papers of Major Charles F. Broomfield

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (31) (Box 2)
  • Dates of Creation
      [1940s-1962], [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      157 ff., 9 items

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford DevelopmentRecords Project, copy of aide-memoire with detailed responses, [1978-1984]; photographsrelated to service with the King's African Rifles, [1940s-1950s], souvenir programmes andother booklets relating to the King's African Rifles, Uganda and Kenya,etc., [c1951-1962].

Administrative / Biographical History

Major Charles F. Broomfield served in the 1st Kenya Regiment, 1938-1940, and inthe 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somaliland, Abyssinia andSouth-East Asia, 1941-1958.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (31) in Manuscript Collections in RhodesHouse Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library,1996).