Papers of Major Peter E.D. Wilson, MC

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (304) (Box 19)
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1951-[c1965?], [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 40 ff.

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; scripts for three lectures on the history of the King's African Rifles, [c1965?]; Brief History of the 4th (U) Bn The K.A.R. (Nairobi, The East African Standard Ltd., 1951).

Administrative / Biographical History

Major Peter E.D. Wilson, MC served with the 4th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, Somalia, Abyssinia, Ceylon, Burma and India, 1939-1946.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (304) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Geographical Names