Typescript recollections, extracted from memoirs held in the Library of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (nd).
Personal recollections of Sir Francis Mudie.
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Liddle Collection IND 24
- Dates of Creation
- ca. 1914-1918
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 file; typescript.
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Sir Francis Mudie was born in Broughton Ferry and educated at Seafield House, Fettes and King's College, Cambridge. As a schoolmaster at Clifton and Eton, he took the examination for the Indian Civil Service before the war and in 1914 joined the 6th Battalion, City of London Rifles before transferring to the 2/4th Somerset Light Infantry and embarking for India. He served with the 10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, the 16th Rajputs and the 127th Baluchis at Calcutta.
Access Information
Access is unrestricted.
Acquisition Information
The papers were placed in the Collection by Lady Mudie. See Research Correspondence File.
Note
In English.
Other Finding Aids
India catalogue (hard copy) http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/liddle/index.htm
Alternative Form Available
Microfilmed.