IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 78
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: Misc: Military forces in West Africa
Date(s): 1918-2000
Level of description: collection level
Extent: 1 file or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s): Depositor
CONTEXT
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CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to military forces in West Africa, including pamphlet entitled A brief history of the Gold Coast Regiment, West African Frontier Force, [1918]; Notes for the guidance and information of visiting contingents during the independence celebrations of Ghana, 2nd to 8th March 1957, Gold Coast Military Forces HQ, Accra, 1957; Nigeria Year Book 1969 (Times Press Ltd, Nigeria); order of service for funeral of Col Leslie Hugh Bean, West African Frontier Force, 1988; order of service for funeral of Maj Gen Daniel Kwao Addo, Chief of Defence Staff, Ghana Armed Forces, 1998; The Ghana Army: a concise contemporary guide to its centennial regimental history, 1897-1999 by Lt Col Festus Aboagye (Sedco Publishing Ltd, Ghana, 1999); article entitled `Ethnicity in the military', The Weekend Statesman, Ghana, Jul 2000, relating to British military recruitment in the Gold Coast.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file as above
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.
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 Archives and Information Management.
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Summary guide entry on-line.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by Keith Steward, Aug 2003
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sept 2007