Cormack, George E

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380660
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full 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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1995 and 1996.

Allied Materials

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

Archivist's note:

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Date(s) of descriptions:
15 May 2000