Papers of Lieut.-Colonel Eric C.T. Wilson, VC

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (303) (Box 19)
  • Dates of Creation
      [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
      English.
  • Physical Description
      20 ff.

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project,responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Administrative / Biographical History

Lieut.-Colonel Eric C.T. Wilson, VC served with the 1st Battalion, King'sAfrican Rifles, Tanganyika, 1937-1939, the Somaliland Camel Corps, 1939-1940,4/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya and Ceylon, 1943-1944,11th Battalion, King's African Rifles, India and Burma, 1944-1945, I.T.C.,Uganda, 1945-1946, and 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia Regiment, NorthernRhodesia, 1946-1949.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (303) in Manuscript Collections in RhodesHouse Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library,1996).

Geographical Names