Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1892-1960 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
7 boxes or 0.07 cubic metres
Scope and content
Narrative of operations of 7 Division, 1918 by the Revd E C Crosse including reference to Clifford's service as Officer Commanding 95 Field Company, Royal Engineers; papers relating to Anglo-Italian Jubaland Boundary Commission, 1925-1928 including maps; British Somaliland-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1931-1936, including intelligence reports on French Somaliland, air survey operations, Walwal incident between Italian and Ethiopian troops, and printed reports on the work of the Commission; Chief Engineer, China Command, including report on Royal Engineers in Hong Kong, 1941-1942; Kenya-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1950-1957, including diaries, 1951-1955, printed reports, and maps of the boundary, 1946-1949; published articles by Clifford, 1928-1947, mainly on boundary commissions; technical manuals, 1924-1932, including surveying; publications and printed works, 1892-1952, including boundary commissions.
System of arrangement
The papers are arranged in sections according to chronology of military service. Published articles by Clifford, technical manuals and publications and printed works are grouped together.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1895; educated at Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered Army, 1914; service in World War One, France and Belgium, 1915-1917 and Italy, 1917-1919; Assistant British Commissioner, Anglo-Italian Jubaland Boundary Commission, 1925-1928; Senior British Commissioner, British Somaliland-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1931-1936; Chief Engineer, China Command, 1940-1941; Prisoner of War, 1941-1945; retired in 1948; British Commissioner, Kenya-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1950-57; died in 1970.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1988.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
Script of material
Uploaded finding aid
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Compiled June 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Boundaries
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International law
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Maps
- Military engineering
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Rights of states
- State security
- Surveying
- Territorial rights
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
People and Organisations
- Clifford, Esmond Humphrey Miller, 1895-1970, Colonel (Subject)
- Crosse, Ernest Coutenay, 1887-1955, Reverend Canon (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- Royal Engineers (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.