Papers of Lieut.-Colonel Walter A.H. Forbes

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (96A) (Box 4)
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 53 ff.

Scope and Content

Address card, correspondence with the Oxford Development Records Project, including draft article on service and list of foreign words used in interview; transcript of tape-recorded interview, [1978-1984].

Administrative / Biographical History

Lieut.-Colonel Walter A.H. Forbes served in the Sudan Defence Force, 1932-1945.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (96A) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Geographical Names

Sudan, History, Military