Papers of Lieut.-Colonel John C.T. Peddie, OBE, MC

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (213) (Box 15)
  • Dates of Creation
      20th century
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      145 ff., 1 item

Scope and Content

Various papers, comprising personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project,responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; souvenir brochure about the King's African Rifles,[c1956]; Notes on Some Colonial Badges byH.G.Harper, from Military History Society Bulletin(Vol. VII, No. 26, November 1956), also drawings of some East Africa Army badges;notes on the history of the King's African Rifles regiments and other Africanforces; drawings and photographs of African soldiers; cards showing the emblemsof various African regiments; photograph of the Queen Mother with King'sAfrican Regiment officers.

Administrative / Biographical History

Lieut.-Colonel John C.T. Peddie, OBE, MC served with the 4th Battalion, King'sAfrican Rifles, Uganda, 1956-1959.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (213) in Manuscript Collections in RhodesHouse Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library,1996).

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