IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Harris N F
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: HARRIS, Sqn Ldr Norman Francis (1907-1994)
Date(s): Created 1994
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1907; served in RAF in UK and East Africa, 1939-1945; followed a political career in Kenya,1945-1961, as Mayor of Nairobi, Nairobi City Councillor, Elected Member of the Legislative Council, and finally Minister of the Crown for Information and Broadcasting; died in 1994.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
From pillar to post (Newton, Swindon, 1995), a memoir of his life covering the period 1939-1978, notably his service in the RAF in the UK and East Africa, 1939-1945, and his political career in Kenya, 1945-1961, as Mayor of Nairobi, Nairobi City Councillor, Elected Member of the Legislative Council and Minister of the Crown for Information and Broadcasting, written in 1994 andpublished in 1995.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 volume
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 published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased by the Centre in 1995.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1996