Photocopied typescript recollections, extracted from memoirs, of the campaign in the Northern Cameroons and service in the Yola Column, 1914-1915 (nd).
Personal recollections of Humphrey Stronge
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Liddle Collection AF 05
- Dates of Creation
- 1914-1915
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 file; typescript (photocopy)
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Humphrey Cecil Travell Stronge (1891-?), a Brigadier, was educated at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and seconded as an officer to the West African Frontier Force in 1914. He served in the Cameroons, German East Africa, and the Western Front, 1914-1918. Later he was the British Military Attache in Prague, 1938. Others of his papers have been deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Imperial War Museum, London.
Access Information
Access is unrestricted.
Acquisition Information
The papers were placed in the Collection by H.R. Stilwell (son-in-law) in 1977. See Research Correspondence File.
Note
In English.
Other Finding Aids
West Africa catalogue (Cameroons and Togoland) http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/liddle/index.htm
Alternative Form Available
Microfilmed.