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   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full 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 & 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

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

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