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PITT, Lt Col (Charles) John (William) (1907-1996)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Pitt

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

Title: PITT, Lt Col (Charles) John (William) (1907-1996)

Date(s): Created 1985; spanning 1940-1943

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Pitt | (Charles) John (William) | 1907-1996 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One file of memoirs.

Conditions governing access:

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

Conditions governing reproduction:

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by John Pitt in 1989.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

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

Related material:

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

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 Project.