GB 0099 KCLMA Downes - DOWNES, Capt Walter Douglas (1884-1920)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Downes

Title

DOWNES, Capt Walter Douglas (1884-1920)

Date(s)

  • Created 1906-1911, 1919 (Creation)

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5 volumes or 0.01 cubic metres

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Born in 1884; 2nd Lt, Royal Sussex Regt, 1905; served in Crete, 1906; Assistant Commissioner, Anglo-German Yola-Cross River Boundary Commission, 1907-1909; Lt, 1909; served with Special Service in Egypt, 1909-1911; attached to Rhodesia-Angola Boundary Commission, 1913-1915; Capt, 1915; attached to West African Frontier Force, 1915-1920; died, 1920.

Archival history

GB 0099 KCLMA Downes Created 1906-1911, 1919 Collection (fonds) 5 volumes or 0.01 cubic metres Downes , Walter Douglas , 1884-1920 , Captain
Born in 1884; 2nd Lt, Royal Sussex Regt, 1905; served in Crete, 1906; Assistant Commissioner, Anglo-German Yola-Cross River Boundary Commission, 1907-1909; Lt, 1909; served with Special Service in Egypt, 1909-1911; attached to Rhodesia-Angola Boundary Commission, 1913-1915; Capt, 1915; attached to West African Frontier Force, 1915-1920; died, 1920.

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1985.

Papers relating to the Anglo-German Yola-Cross River Boundary Commission, Nigeria and Cameroon, 1907-1909, comprising bound typescript account of the work of the Commission between Yola and Kwosa, Aug 1908, with unsigned geological report on the Nigerian-Cameroon Boundary, Yola to Cross River, 1907-1909, written in [1909]; photographs, 1907-1909, bound with 'Two years on an Anglo-German boundary commission in West Africa', typescript by Downes, [1909] and 'Nigeria: delimitation of boundary between Yola and the Cross River, 1907-9', Command paper 5368, printed by HMSO in 1909. With the Nigerians in German East Africa (Methuen and Co, London, 1919), special edition bound with typescript copies of press reviews, 1919. Photographs relating to his service with 2 Royal Sussex Regt, Crete, 1906, bound with an account of his service, written in 1915. Photographs of Sinai, 1909-1911, mainly landscapes and people.

5 volumes

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided forresearch use only. Requests to publish original material should besubmitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
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This collection description.

Decorations: MC
Jul 1997 Africa Boundaries Cameroon Central Africa Crete Cross River Documents Egypt England Europe Geology Germany Greece Information sources International law Kwosa Memoirs Nigeria North Africa Photographs Rights of states Sinai Territorial rights UK Visual materials West Africa Western Europe Yola London Primary documents

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1985.

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Scope and content

Papers relating to the Anglo-German Yola-Cross River Boundary Commission, Nigeria and Cameroon, 1907-1909, comprising bound typescript account of the work of the Commission between Yola and Kwosa, Aug 1908, with unsigned geological report on the Nigerian-Cameroon Boundary, Yola to Cross River, 1907-1909, written in [1909]; photographs, 1907-1909, bound with 'Two years on an Anglo-German boundary commission in West Africa', typescript by Downes, [1909] and 'Nigeria: delimitation of boundary between Yola and the Cross River, 1907-9', Command paper 5368, printed by HMSO in 1909. With the Nigerians in German East Africa (Methuen and Co, London, 1919), special edition bound with typescript copies of press reviews, 1919. Photographs relating to his service with 2 Royal Sussex Regt, Crete, 1906, bound with an account of his service, written in 1915. Photographs of Sinai, 1909-1911, mainly landscapes and people.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

5 volumes

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Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided forresearch use only. Requests to publish original material should besubmitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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This collection description.

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Decorations: MC

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Decorations: MC

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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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  • English

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