Burma Regiment: Chin Hills Battalion

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380001
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	: Burma Regiment: Chin Hills Battalion
Date(s)	: [1897-1947]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: British Army | Burma Regiment | Chin Hills Battalion

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Chin Hills Battalion was formed in 1894.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript account, undated, of the Chin Hills Battalion, Burma Regiment, British Army, over the period 1894-1947, comprising reports written by various officers [1897-1947], including accounts of operations and some lists of personnel. The section for the period 1894-1897 was not written at the time, but compiled in 1897 or 1898 from various sources.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Database.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented in 1978.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London, holds typescript histories of the Chin Hills Battalion written by Lt Col Alleyn Cardwell Moore (Ref: Moore). The British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, contain relevant material among the India Office records.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jul 2002