Papers of Lieut.-Colonel George G. Robson

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS Afr. s. 1715 (231) (Box 15)
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1978-1984]
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 35 ff.

Scope and Content

Personal data sheet, correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project, responses to aide-memoire with transcript, [1978-1984].

Administrative / Biographical History

Lieut.-Colonel George Gordon Robson served with the 1/6th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Tanganyika, Kenya and Abyssinia, 1938-1941, the 6th Battalion, Tanganyika, 1941-1942, 1/6th Battalion, Somalia and Madagascar, 1942-1943, the East Africa Tactical School, Kenya, 1943-1944, 12th Battalion, King's African Rifles, Kenya and Tanganyika, 1944, and 3/6th Battalion, Burma and India, 1944-1945.

Other Finding Aids

Listed as no. 920 (231) in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).

Geographical Names

Tanzania, History, Military