IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Pyle
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: PYLE, Farrier Sgt Richard E (b 1860)
Date(s): Created 1885
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 microfilm reel
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CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1860; service in Ireland, 1884-1885; served as Farrier Sgt, 5 (Royal Irish) Lancers, 1885; service in Suakin campaign, Sudan, 1885.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Microfilm copy of manuscript narrative diary by Pyle covering the voyage of two Sqns of 5 (Royal Irish) Lancers from Kingstown, Ireland, to the Sudan, and the subsequent Suakin campaign against Dervish forces commanded by the Mahdi (Mohammed Ahmed Ibn Al-Sayid Abdullah), 20 Feb-11 Apr 1885, including an account of the Battle of Tofrek, 22 Mar 1885.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 microfilm reel
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:
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Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1975.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1999