Papers of Major Walter S. Gimber

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (104) (Box 5)
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1940s], [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 20 ff.

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; photographs of King's African Rifles, [1940s], with list.

Administrative / Biographical History

Major Walter S. Gimber served in the 1/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya and Madagascar, 1940-1943, 2nd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Burma, 1944, and 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Uganda, 1945.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (104) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).