Papers of Colonel Humphrey P. Williams, OBE

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (300) (Box 19)
  • Dates of Creation
    • 20th century
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 375 ff., 1 item

Scope and Content

  • Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, brief responses to aide-memoire with transcript, transcript of interview with inserts, [1978-1984]
  • Xerox copy of a history of the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, up to 1918, by Williams, 20th century
  • Note on Karonga Cemetery, Malawi, 1979
  • Xeroxed letters and notes, 1952-1954, relating to African service and to 1st Battalion history
  • Force Orders in Nyasaland, 1899-1902, with accompanying letter, 1953
  • Xerox copies of notes on the crossing of the Omo Bottego, Abyssinia by 1/1st Battalion and the 23rd Nigerian Brigade, with sketch maps, [c1942?]
  • Xerox copy of a brief on the King's African Rifles and training of Askaris, 1953
  • Notes for a broadcast talk on African Soldiers by Williams, 1953
  • Account of an episode involving a runaway buffalo in Tanganyika, 1935
  • Williams' diary of the voyage out to East Africa in 1931 and of a march of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, King's African Rifles, 1933
  • Notes, [1950s?], on the movements of Northern Rhodesia Regiment and King's African Rifles battalions, 1939-1954, on the badges and commanding officers of the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, and on the history of the 1st Battalion 1919-1939
  • Incomplete narrative on a military operation in Africa, 20th century
  • Xeroxed map, 1942, of southern and central Africa
  • Xeroxed newspaper cutting, [1940s?], on the Chase of the Mad Mullah
  • Photographs of 1st Battalion King's African Rifles officers, [1951-1953?] with notes of names and a letter from Williams to the Oxford Development Records Project, [1979-c1982]
  • Photographs and negatives relating to King's African Rifles service, [c1950s?]
  • Miscellaneous papers, [1940s], and a periodical, Ulemu, No. 10, September 1945, relating to war service

Administrative / Biographical History

Colonel Humphrey P. Williams, OBE served with the 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles, Nyasaland and Tanganyika, 1931-1936, 6th Battalion, Tanganyika, 1936-1937, 13th Battalion, India, 1944-1945, and 1st Battalion, Northern Rhodesia and Malaya, 1949-1953.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (300) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).