IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380660
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies
Title: Cormack, George E
Date(s): Created 1912-1919
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Cormack | George E | 1886-1959 | businessman and soldier
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
George E Cormack was born in 1886. He spent the period 1913-1917 in Manchuria as a business representative, returning to Britain escorting a gang of Chinese labourers destined for the Chinese Labour Corps. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in North Russia between 1918-1919 and this was followed by a brief sojourn in South Russia, 1919-1920. He then worked in Estonia and Latvia as a shipping agent, 1924-1940. He returned to northern Russia from 1941-1942 as a Ministry of War Transport representative with the Murmansk convoys. He died in 1959.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photographic material, 1912-1919, of George Cormack, comprising 42 glass slides, c1912-1919, principally of Manchuria and the Chinese Labour Corps, and an album of photographs, 1912-1913, relating to a visit on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Siberia and North Manchuria.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The material is arranged in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Unpublished handlist.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated in 1995 and 1996.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Memoirs and papers of George Cormack are held at the Imperial War Museum Department of Documents (Ref: 92/21/1) and two photograph albums at the Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive (Ref: 9205-03).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000