GB 0099 KCLMA Pitt - PITT, Lt Col (Charles) John (William) (1907-1996)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Pitt Created 1985; spanning 1940-1943 Collection (fonds) 1 file Pitt , (Charles) John (William) , 1907-1996 , Lieutenant Colonel
Born 1907; Rhodes scholar from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1929; forester in Colonial Forest Service, Tanganyika, East Africa; returned to UK, 1939; served 22 (EA) Infantry Bde, Abyssinia, 1940-1942, as platoon commander of the 1/6 (Tanganyika) King's African Rifles; Madagascar, 1942-1943; died 1996.

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Placed in the Centre by John Pitt in 1989.

Copy of typescript memoirs of the service in Africa of John Pitt, 1940-1943, entitled 'Adui Mbele (Enemy in Front): Some Recollections of a Platoon Commander in the East African Campaign (1940-41) and on Brigade Staff in Madagascar (1942-43)', detailing the arrival in South Africa of Pitt, the background to the campaign, personalities and expeditionary summaries.

One file of memoirs.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English

Summary Guide on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

John Pitt informed the Centre in 1989 that he had offered the Imperial War Museum and National Army Museum copies of the recollections.

LHCMA: Dimoline papers relating to the service as CO, 22 East Africa Infantry Bde, of William Alfred Dimoline.

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 Project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. June 2003 Wars (events) Armed forces British Army Documents East Africa Information sources International conflicts International relations Madagascar Memoirs Military organizations Military personnel Organizations Personnel Pitt , Charles John William , 1907-1996 , Lieutenant Colonel State security War World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) People by occupation People Primary documents

Placed in the Centre by John Pitt in 1989.

Copy of typescript memoirs of the service in Africa of John Pitt, 1940-1943, entitled 'Adui Mbele (Enemy in Front): Some Recollections of a Platoon Commander in the East African Campaign (1940-41) and on Brigade Staff in Madagascar (1942-43)', detailing the arrival in South Africa of Pitt, the background to the campaign, personalities and expeditionary summaries.

One file of memoirs.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

• English

• Latin

English

LHCMA: Dimoline papers relating to the service as CO, 22 East Africa Infantry Bde, of William Alfred Dimoline.

Summary Guide on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

John Pitt informed the Centre in 1989 that he had offered the Imperial War Museum and National Army Museum copies of the recollections.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English