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

Misc: Jambo [magazine for East Africa Command personnel], 1944-1945


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 4

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

Title: Misc: Jambo [magazine for East Africa Command personnel], 1944-1945

Date(s): 1944-1945

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 7 items

Name of creator(s): Directorate of Education and Welfare Headquarters, East Africa Command

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Created as a monthly leisure magazine for East Africa Command personnel from all three services, Jambo was published by the Directorate of Education and Welfare Headquarters, East Africa Command, Kenya

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Collection consists of seven issues of the East Africa Command monthly magazine Jambo, Dec 1944-Jun 1945. The issues include fiction, service information, East Africa cultural articles, verse, and illustrations relating to British service in East Africa during World War Two, and notably contain articles by Damon Runyon, (William) Somerset Maugham, and J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre in 1974 by The Reverend Prebendary G A L Lloyd

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Date of compilation: Oct 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Essays | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Poetry | Literary forms and genres | Literature
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Maugham | William Somerset | 1874-1865 | author x Maugham | Somerset
Priestley | John Boynton | 1894-1984 | novelist, playwright, essayist and broadcaster x Priestley | J B
Runyon | Damon | 1880-1946 | author

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Kenya | East Africa