Papers of Major Charles F. Broomfield

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (31) (Box 2)
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1940s-1962], [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 157 ff., 9 items

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, copy of aide-memoire with detailed responses, [1978-1984]; photographs related to service with the King's African Rifles, [1940s-1950s], souvenir programmes and other booklets relating to the King's African Rifles, Uganda and Kenya, etc., [c1951-1962].

Administrative / Biographical History

Major Charles F. Broomfield served in the 1st Kenya Regiment, 1938-1940, and in the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somaliland, Abyssinia and South-East Asia, 1941-1958.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (31) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).