Papers of Major Edward G.C. Haigh

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Afr. s. 1715 (122) (Box 5)
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1941-1942, [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 96 ff.

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire, [1978-1984]; plan of operations of 12th African Division, Gondar campaign, 1941; The Abyssinian campaigns...The official story of the conquest of Italian East Africa (London, H.M. Stationery Office, 1942).

Administrative / Biographical History

Major Edward G.C. Haigh served in the 3rd Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1939-1940, 2/3rd Battalion, Turkhana, Abyssinia, Kenya, 1940-1942, and 5/6th Battalion, Uganda, Abyssinia, Tanganyika and India, 1942-1945.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (122) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).