PITT, Lt Col (Charles) John (William) (1907-1996)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Pitt
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	: PITT, Lt Col (Charles) John (William) (1907-1996)
Date(s)	: Created 1985; spanning 1940-1943
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Pitt | (Charles) John (William) | 1907-1996 | Lieutenant Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1907; Rhodes scholar from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1929; forester in Colonial Forest Service, Tanganyika, East Africa; returned to UK, 1939; served 22 (EA) Infantry Bde, Abyssinia, 1940-1942, as platoon commander of the 1/6 (Tanganyika) King's African Rifles; Madagascar, 1942-1943; died 1996.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of typescript memoirs of the service in Africa of John Pitt, 1940-1943, entitled 'Adui Mbele (Enemy in Front): Some Recollections of a Platoon Commander in the East African Campaign (1940-41) and on Brigade Staff in Madagascar (1942-43)', detailing the arrival in South Africa of Pitt, the background to the campaign, personalities and expeditionary summaries.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One file of memoirs.

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 on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

*

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by John Pitt in 1989.

Allied Materials

Related material:

LHCMA: Dimoline papers relating to the service as CO, 22 East Africa Infantry Bde, of William Alfred Dimoline.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for 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:
June 2003