Photographs and diary relating to the work of Thomas M. R. Leonard

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Afr.s.1664
  • Dates of Creation
    • [ca. 1901]-1931
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 8 volumes, 1 box

Scope and Content

Eight captioned albums of photographs relating to Leonard's service as Medical Officer with the Anglo-French expedition in the Cameroons (1914-1916) and with the Nigerian Brigade in German East Africa (1916-1918).

Also, a diary describing Leonard's medical service in Southern Nigeria (1907); letters, maps and photographs relating to his medical service in West Africa (1907-1931), and an album of photographs of service in South Africa, Grenada and St. Vincent (c.1901-1905).

Administrative / Biographical History

Thomas Malcolm R. Leonard, Medical Officer in Africa and the West Indies.

Access Information

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Note

Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Other Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room.

Listed as no. 1225 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

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