Papers of Captain Patrick L. Edwards

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (80) (Box 4)
  • Dates of Creation
    • 20th century
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 24 ff.

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; transcript of a letter, 1941, from Edwards' platoon sergeant to the Nigerian press concerning the War.

Administrative / Biographical History

Captain Patrick L. Edwards served in the 2nd Battalion, Nigerian Regiment, Kenya, Somaliland and Abyssinia, 1940-1941, in the 4/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Somaliland and Abyssinia, 1941-1943, and Staff, Kenya, 1943-1944.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (80) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).