Papers of Lieut.-Colonel Michael B. Scott

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS Afr. s. 1715 (241) (Box 16)
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1957-1961, [c1980s?]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 62 ff., 9 items

Scope and Content

Various papers, comprising personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, annotated aide-memoire; typescript article, [c1980s?], by Scott, Kenya Game Book 1955-1958; articles from the Household Brigade Magazine on the King's African Rifles and the Nigerian Regiment, 1957-1958; issues of The Journal of the King's African Rifles, 1957-1959, 1961.

Administrative / Biographical History

Lieut.-Colonel Michael B. Scott served in the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1955-1959.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (241) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Related Material

A month of mutiny by Lieut.-Colonel M.B. Scott, Lieut.-Colonel J.M. Clavering and Major D.C. Prior, 1984, a typescript account of Scots Guards activities during the January 1964 mutiny, rebellion and coup d'tat in East Africa (ref. MSS. Afr. s. 1891).

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