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Papers of Maj Gen William Alfred Dimoline,
CB, CME, CBE, DSO, MC, (1897-1965)
[DIMOLINE: 1/1]
1914-1916
Typescript signals instructions relating to 5 Bn King's Liverpool Regt, Canterbury, Kent, and Dunstable Signal Depot, Bedfordshire, including a diagram of communications in Dunstable trenches. 11pp.
[DIMOLINE: 1/2]
1916 Sept 5-1921 Feb 23
Manuscript correspondence book, used by Dimoline for 35 Div Signal Company, in France, 5 Sep-3 Oct 1916, and for No 1 Section 6 Div Signals, in India, 27 Oct 1920-23 Feb 1921. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 1/3]
1917 Apr-1917 Aug
File containing operational instructions for 35 Div Artillery Signals, including typescript report on German telephone lines, typescript statement on position of 35 Div Artillery on 10 July 1917, typescript notes for a lecture on communication of Artillery Signals, and manuscript maps showing Allied positions around Basse Boulogne, France during World War One. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 1/4]
1917 May-1917 Oct
Typescript operational orders for 35 Div Artillery Signals, issued by Maj R A Holland, 35 Div Artillery, covering moves and reliefs of 35 Div Artillery, May-Oct 1917. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 1/5]
1918 Nov-1919 Nov
Typescript instructions on the registration and filing of correspondence relating to 35 Div Artillery Signals; also dinner menu from 19 Corps Signal Company, Royal Engineers, 18 Nov 1918. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 1/6]
1919 May,1919 Aug
Manuscript instructions from Midland Signal Company on the despatch of private telegrams to Great Britain, Ireland, France and Belgium, and typescript request to 19 Corps for volunteers for the Signal Service of the British Mission to South Russia by the Deputy Adjutant General for the British Army of the Rhine. 4pp
[DIMOLINE: 2/1]
[1920]
Typescript India Army Order from Maj Gen H E Cooke, Officiating Adjutant General in India, concerning the promotion of officers. 4pp.
[DIMOLINE: 2/2]
1920 Oct-1921 Feb
Manuscript diary covering Dimoline's service
as Officer Commanding 34 Bde Column, Royal Signals, describing landing
at Samawah, Iraq, operations at Rumaitha, Iraq and Shattra, Iraq and departure
from Basra, Iraq, Oct 1920-Feb 1921. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 2/3]
1922 Jun 28,1922 Jul 29
Typescript routine orders for Commanding Waziristan Force, by Maj Gen Torquhil George Matheson and Colonel Commandant Frederick Peter Charles Keily. 2 pamphlets.
[DIMOLINE: 2/4]
[1922]
Typescript notes and instructions on the laying of cable equipment, entitled 'Hints for Cable Commanders'. 13pp.
[DIMOLINE: 3/1]
1923
Manuscript notebook by Dimoline from his service in Nigeria, Headquarters, Nigeria Regiment, West Africa Frontier Force, including notes describing tours of Nigeria, including information on the systems of government and the population of the Nigerian townships. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 3/2]
[1923]
Manuscript notebook covering Dimoline's service in Nigeria entitled, 'Road traverses', containing notes and diagrams on the terrain of Nigeria. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 3/3]
1924 Feb-1924 Mar
Field Message book, containing typescript instructions on the preparation of Army messages, and manuscript messages sent by Dimoline. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 3/4]
1924 Jan-1924 Jun
Manuscript personal diary realting to Dimoline's service in Nigeria, Jan-Jun 1924, including details of the birth of his first daughter. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 3/5]
1936 July
Journal of the Nigeria Regiment, Vol 6, No, 3.
[DIMOLINE: 4] Papers relating to
Dimoline's service with 2 Indian Div Signals,
Quetta, Pakistan, 1934-1935, mainly concerning the Quetta Earthquake
[DIMOLINE: 4/1]
1934 Jul-1936 Mar
Paper's relating to Dimoline's service as Signals Officer with 2 Indian Div Signals, Quetta, Pakistan, including health certificates, receipts of posting, and letter from Capt J C Curtis, War Office on Dimoline's posting to the War Office as General Staff Officer Grade 3. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 4/2]
1935
File containing telegrams to Dimoline from his family after the Quetta earthquake; manuscript letter from Lt Edward Basil Elliott, Royal Signals, requesting the presence of Dimoline at an event organised by the Ancient Order of Quetta Quakers, with attached minutes and absence list from the first meeting of Ancient Order of Quetta Quakers; and instructions for sending map references in code by telegram. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 4/3]
1935
Typescript diary entitled, 'Quetta Earthquake diary' by Dimoline, compiled from Signal Officer diaries, official files, unit orders, and officers' private diaries, describing aftermath of earthquake at Quetta, Pakistan, 31 May 1935, with diagrams showing the effect of the earthquake on telephone and telegraph communications around Quetta, Pakistan. 57pp.
[DIMOLINE: 4/4]
1935
Typescript appendices to 'Quetta Earthquake diary', compiled by Dimoline, describing aftermath of earthquake at Quetta, Pakistan, 31 May 1935, giving roll of men, women and children present in Quetta, Pakistan from 30 May-8 Jun 1935, and data on the work of 2 Indian Div Signals from 31 May-17 Jun 1935. 20pp.
[DIMOLINE: 4/5]
1935
Pamphlet entitled, 'A Form of Prayer and of Thanksgiving to Almighty God', for silver jubilee of George V (Government of India Press, 1935). 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 4/6]
1935
The Quetta Earthquake, 1935 published by authority of the Government of India, (Government of India Press, 1935). 2 copies.
[DIMOLINE: 5]
1936 Jan
File containing copies of The Daily Telegraph (21 Jan 1936, 28 Jan 1936), The Daily Mail (21 Jan 1936), and The Evening Standard (21 Jan 1936, 23 Jan 1936), on the death of George V. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 6] Papers relating to
Dimoline's service as Commanding Officer
Northern Rhodesia Regt, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, 1937-1940
[DIMOLINE: 6/1]
1937-1939
Confidential report on Dimoline's command of the Northern Rhodesian Regt by Maj Gen George James Giffard, Inspector General Royal West African Frontier Force and King's African Rifles, and. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 6/2]
1937 Feb 8-1938 May 21
Scrap album containing newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to Dimoline's service as Commanding Officer Northern Rhodesia Regt, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, including material relating to the celebration of the coronation of George VI, May 1937. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 6/3]
1938
Italian publication celebrating the second anniversary of the Italian conquest of Gondar, Abyssina, 1936. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 6/4]
1939 Nov
Typescript copy of speech by Governor of Northern Rhodesia (Sir John Alexander Maybin). 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 6/5]
1939-1940
Scrap album containing newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to Dimoline's service as Commanding Officer Northern Rhodesia Regt, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, during World War Two. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 6/6/1]
1938
Northern Rhodesia Legislative Council Debates, Fifth Session of the Fifth Council, 13-29 Nov 1937 (Northern Rhodesia Government Printer, 1937). 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 6/6/2]
1939
Northern Rhodesia Legislative Council Debates, Fifth Session of the Sixth Council, 3-21 Dec 1938 (Northern Rhodesia Government Printer, 1939). 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 6/6/3]
1939 Mar 11
Pamphlet entitled, 'Address to Legislative Council (of Northern Rhodesia) by his Excellency the Governor of Northern Rhodesia' (Sir John Alexander Maybin), 11 Mar 1939. 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 6/6/4]
1940
Northern Rhodesia Legislative Council Debates, Third Session (Emergency Meetings) of the Sixth Council, 15-24 Nov 1939 (Northern Rhodesia Government Printer, 1940). 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 7] Papers relating to
Dimoline's service as Commanding Officer 26
(East African) Infantry Bde, in East Africa and Abyssinia, 1940-1950
[DIMOLINE: 7/1]
1940-1942
Scrap album, with notes and cuttings on Addis Ababa and Madagascar.
[DIMOLINE: 7/2]
1941 Feb-1943 Aug
Papers including copy of East Africa Force Gazette, No. 48, 8 Feb 1941; manuscript telegrams and letters congratulating Dimoline on his promotion to Brigadier, Feb 1941, and Supplement No. 1 to East Africa Command Gazette No 178, 12 Aug 1943, detailing Dimoline's award of the Order of the British Empire. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 7/3]
1941 Jun-1942 Nov
Manuscript correspondence between Dimoline and Mrs Irene Muriel Dimoline, (Dimoline's Mother), describing Allied operations against Italian forces around Assab and Gondar, Abyssinia, with typescript narratives describing the capture of Gondar, Abyssinia, by Allied troops from Italian forces, Nov 1941. 53pp.
[DIMOLINE: 7/4]
1942
Typescript report entitled, 'Report on 26 (East African) Infantry Bde Group, Gondar operations', decribing Allied offensive against Italian forces around Gondar, Abyssinia, Nov 1941, including draft of typescript report. 38 pp, 3 maps.
[DIMOLINE: 7/5]
1948-1950
Typescript correspondence between Dimoline and Lt Col John Edward Broadbent Barton, Cabinet Office Historical Section, on Dimoline's service as Commanding Officer 26 (East African) Infantry Bde, in Abyssinia. 27pp.
[DIMOLINE: 7/6]
1942
Official War Office account of Abyssinian campaign entitled, The Abyssinian Campaigns: The Official Story of the Conquest of Italian East Africa (1942, L T A Robinson Ltd, London). 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 7/7]
[1944]
Pamphlet entitled, 'East Africa Command: The Story of the East Africa Army Service Corps', including details of the involvement of the East African Service Corps in operations against Italian forces in Abyssinia, ([1944], East African Standard Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya). 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 8/1]
1942 Jul 11
Typescript notes for lecture by Lt Commander G G Butler, Royal Navy, entitled 'Operation IRONCLAD, the Madagascar Expedition', detailing Allied offensive to capture Diego Suarez, Madagascar, from Vichy French forces, May 1942 . 12pp.
[DIMOLINE: 8/2]
1942 Jul
Typescript report by Dimoline to Capt J G Hewitt, Headquarters 121 Force Signals, of the capture of Mayotta Island, Madagascar, 2 Jul 1942, by Allied troops. 9pp.
[DIMOLINE: 8/3]
1942 Nov
Typescript transcript of an interview with Dimoline by G Kinnear on capture of Mayotta Island, Madagascar, by 22 (East African) Infantry Bde. 7pp.
[DIMOLINE: 8/4]
1942 Sep-1942 Nov
File including original signed armistice conditions for Madagascar.
[DIMOLINE: 8/5]
[Nov 1942]
Typescript report entitled, 'Account of operations of 22 (East African) Infantry Bde in Madagascar, 10 Sep-6 Nov 1942', including order of battle for 22 (East African) Infantry Bde, maps of Madagascar. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 8/6]
1942 Nov-1943 Jul
File including typescript and manuscript letters from Gen Sir William Platt, General Officer Commanding, East African Command, congratulating Dimoline on his role in Operation IRONCLAD (the capture of Diego Suarez, Madagascar), and typescript notification from Dimoline to 22 (East African) Inf Bde over his departure to take command of 21 (East African Bde) in Ceylon. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 9] Papers relating to
Dimoline's service as Commanding Officer 28
(East African) Infantry Bde and 11 (East African) Div,
Burma and India, 1944-1947
[DIMOLINE: 9/1]
1944 May-1944 Dec
File containing typescript comments on the lessons drawn from training exercises for 11 (East African) Div, including details on sentry duty and mortars, and also from training exercise for 28 (East African) Infantry Bde. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 9/2]
1944 Sep-1945 Feb,1945 Feb-1946 Feb
File containing Dimoline's personal correspondence during his service as Comanding Officer 28 (East African) Infantry Bde, Sep 1944-Feb 1945 and as Commanding Officer 11 (East African) Div, Feb 1945-Feb 1946, including letters from General Sir William Joseph Slim, General Officer Commanding ALFSEA (Allied Land Forces, South-East Asia). 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 9/3]
1944 Dec-1946 Apr
File containing Dimoline's typescript and manuscript correspondence during his service as Commanding Officer 28 (East African) Infantry Bde and 11 (East African) Div, Burma, including correspondence with Maj Gen Charles Christopher Fowkes, Commander Northern Area, Kenya, and Maj Gen E C Robert Mansergh, General Officer Commanding Allied Troops, Netherland East Indies. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 9/4]
1945 Jan-1946 Mar
File containing manuscript and typescript letters from Dimoline's service as Commanding Officer 11 (East African) Div, Burma, including correspondence with Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Eastern Command, Brig J MacNab, Commanding Officer 21 (East African) Infantry, and Brig S Galletly, Commanding Officer 28 (East African) Infantry Bde. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 9/5]
1945 Mar-1945 Sep
File containing documents relating to Dimoline's service as Officer Commanding 11 (East African) Div, Burma, including typescript notes for lecture by Maj Gen Charles Christopher Fowkes on Allied operations on Assam-Burma border Aug 1944-Dec 1944; typescript narrative by Lt Gen Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, Commander in Chief ALFSEA, on operations by Allied troops against Japanese forces following Allied capture of Mandalay, Burma, and on role of 11 (East African) Div in capture from Japanese forces of Rangoon, Burma; and typescript report entitled, '22 (East Africa) Inf Bde operations in Burma'. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 9/6]
1945 Apr-1946 Apr
File containing documents relating to Dimoline's service as Officer Commanding 11 (East Africa) Div, including staff list of Headquarters 11 (East Africa) Div; poems by Corporal B Dimoline, on Nairobi, Kenya, souvenir issue of Rhino Review, magazine of 14 Army, Burma 1944, RhinoReview, magazine of 14 Army, 22 Apr 1945, 2 copies.. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 9/7]
1945 Sep-1946 Jun
File containing personal papers relating to Dimoline, during his service as Officer Commanding, 11 (East Africa) Div, including export licences and notification of Dimoline's vaccination against cholera. 1 file
[DIMOLINE: 9/8]
1945
Typescript draft entitled, 'History of 28 (East Africa) Independent Infantry Bde', detailing role of 28 (East African) Independent Infantry Bde against Japanese forces in Burma. 44pp.
[DIMOLINE: 9/9]
1946
File containing documents relating to the Allied Victory Parade, London, 8 Jun 1946, including typescript instructions for senior officers taking part in the parade, typescript instructions for the march by FM Alan Francis Brooke, Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough, entitled 'The Order of the March', official programme of the victory parade, and documents relating to Dimoline's relinquishing of the appointment of Officer Commanding 11 (East African) Div, and appointment as General Officer Commanding East Africa. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 9/10]
1945 Mar
Pamphlet entitled, '1 Bn Northern Rhodesian Regt: Ceylon to the Chindwin, Burma 1944', by Capt Malcolm Monteith, Intelligence Officer, 1 Bn Northern Rhodesian Regt, describing actions of 1 Bn Northern Rhodesian Regt against Japanese forces in 1944. 2 copies
[DIMOLINE: 9/11]
[1945]
Pamphlet entitled, 'Campaign of 14 Army 1944-1945', [by Gen Sir William Joseph Slim], describing the advance into Burma against Japanese forces by 14 Army. 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 9/12]
[1946]
Pamphlet entitled, '3 Bn Northern Rhodesian Regiment, Burma 1945-1946', by Lt John William Elliot Mackenzie, describing operations of 3 Bn Northern Rhodesian Regiment in Burma against Japanese forces. 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 9/13]
1947
Final typescript draft of,'Report to Combined Chiefs of Staff by Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, 1943-1946', by Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, with forwarding typescript letter to Dimoline from Mountbatten. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 10/1]
1948
Official correspondence relating to Dimoline's service as General Officer Commanding, East Africa, including typescript letters relating to a general strike in Zanzibar. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 10/2]
1947 Dec-1948 Oct
Personal corresondence relating to Dimoline's service as General Officer Commanding, East Africa, including typescript letters relating to import licenses for goods brought from Kenya to UK, and letters relating to the estate of Mrs Irene Muriel Dimoline, Dimoline's mother. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 10/3]
1946 Jun-1948 May
Correspondence relating to Dimoline's service as General Officer Commanding, East Africa, including letters from Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, Adjutant Gen to the Forces, and FM Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, regarding the mutiny of men from 13 Parachute Bn, at Muar Camp, Java, May 1946; Maj Gen Sir Arthur Arnhold Bullick Dowler, concerning his succession to Dimoline as General Officer Commanding, East Africa; and typescript letters from Maj Gen Sir Robert Mansergh, Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War, Lt Gen Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, Director of Military Training, War Office, and Rt Hon Frederick John Bellenger, MP, Secretary of State for War, concerning Dimoline's promotion to General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command Hampshire. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 10/4]
1946-1948
Typescript texts of Dimoline's speeches and addresses given as General Officer Commanding, East Africa, including to Rotary Club of Nairobi. 1 file, concerning role of the Army in Africa.
[DIMOLINE: 10/5]
1947-1948
Correspondence relating to Dimoline's service as General Officer Commanding, East Africa, including typescript half-yearly review of Communist activities in Ethiopia up to June 1948, and personal correspondence with Gen Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, Commander in Chief, Middle East Forces, and Maj Gen Sir Phillip Euen Mitchell, Governor of Kenya. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 10/6]
1948 Sep-1948 Oct
Correspondence relating to Dimoline's service as General Officer Commanding, East Africa, relating to Dimoline's posting to Commander, Aldershot District, Hampshire, including typescript speech by Dimoline on relinquishing command of East Africa Command, and typescript correspondence wiht Maj Gen Joseph Aloysius Baillon, General Officer Commanding, Aldershot District, Hampshire. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 10/7]
1947-1948
Papers containing details on exercises BAMBOO and QUICKMARCH II practising warfare in jungle conditions, in which Dimoline commanded 18 (East Africa) Div. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 11/1]
1950 Jan-1951 Jan
Personal correspondence covering Dimoline's service as General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command, Hampshire, including typescript correspondence with Lt Col Howard N Cole concerning Cole's The Story of Aldershot: A History and Guide to Town and Camp (1951, Gale and Poden, Aldershot, Hampshire) and Dimoline's foreword to The Story of Aldershot, and pamphlet regarding the appeal for £30,000 for Nairobi Cathedral, Southern Rhodesia. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 11/2]
1949 May-1949 Dec
Speeches given by Dimoline during his service as General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command, Hampshire. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 11/3]
1948 Dec-1949 Oct
Papers, mostly newspaper cuttings taken by Dimoline during his service as General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command, Hampshire, including a letter to The Times (24 Jan 1949), by Ewen E S Montagu, Deputy Chairman, Hampshire Quarter Sessions, regarding the high rates of crime in Hampshire caused by soldiers, and also including typescript by FM Sir William Joseph Slim entitled, 'Discipline and Liberty'. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 11/4]
1949 Feb-1951 Jul
File containing speeches and lectures made by Dimoline during his service as General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command, Hampshire, including typescript draft of speech to 90 Army Group, Royal Artillery, concerning foriegn policy of USSR, May 1951. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 11/5]
1948 Dec-1950 Dec
Correspondence relating to Dimoline's honorary appointments to such positions as during his service as General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command, Hampshir,. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 12/1]
1951 Sep-1953 Sep
File containing Dimoline's monthly diary of events listing meetings and social outings attended as Representative on Military Staff Committee, United Nations, New York. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 12/2]
1951 Nov-1953 Mar
Personal papers relating to Dimoline's service as Representative on Military Staff Committee, United Nations, New York, including correspondence on award of honours to Belgian Congo medical staff; and typescript personal correspondence with Trygve Halvdan Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations; FM Sir William Joseph Slim; Gen Hastings Lionel Ismay, Baron Ismay of Worthington; ACM Sir William Elliot and FM Bernard Law Montgomery, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 12/3]
1952-1953
Personal file containing Dimoline's accounts of visits to parts of USA, including Colorado Springs, Kansas, USA, San Antonio, Texas, USA, including letter from FM Sir William Joseph Slim on his own visit to USA, and papers relating to Prime Minister Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's visit to Washington and New York, USA, and US Army photograph of Military Staff Committee of the United Nations, 12 Dec 1952. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 12/4]
1952 Jan-1953 Jul
Typescript text of lecture given by Dimoline, entitled 'British East and Central Africa', and typescript text of lectures by FM Sir William Joseph Slim, entitled 'Freedom and Discipline' and by Sir Roger Mellor Makins, British Ambassador to the United Nations, entitled 'Britain's Responsibility in the Free World'. Also papers concerning Northern Rhodesia Association meeting in 1952. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 12/5]
1951-1952
File containing papers relating to Dimoline's service as Representative on Military Staff Committee, United Nations, New York, including newspaper cutting and photograph of United Nations delegation including Dimoline arriving at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, USA, and navigation log for British Airways Overseas flight from New York to Nassau. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/1]
1956 Jul
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 1 No. 1, Jul 1956. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/2]
1957 Jan
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 1 No. 2, Jan 1957. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/3]
1957 Sep
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 1 No. 3, Sep 1957. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/4]
1958 Jul
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 1 No. 4, Jul 1958. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/5]
1958 Dec
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 1 No. 5, Dec 1958. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/6]
1959 Jul
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 1 No. 6, Jul 1959. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/7]
1959 Dec
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 2 No. 1, Dec 1959. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/8]
1960 Jul
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 2 No. 2, Sep 1960. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/9]
1961 Jul
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Vol. 3 No. 1, Jul 1961. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/10]
1961 Dec
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Dec 1961. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/11]
1962 Jul
The Journal of The King's African Rifles, Sep 1962. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/12]
1963 Jan
ASKARI (formely The Journal of The King's African Rifles), Jan 1963. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/13]
1963 Jul
ASKARI Journal (formely The Journal of The King's African Rifles), Jul 1963. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/1/14]
[1964 Jan]
ASKARI Journal (formely The Journal of The King's African Rifles), Final issue, [Jan 1964]. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 13/2]
1945
'The Story of the Northern Rhodesian Regt' (Government Printer, Lusaka, 1945). 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 13/3]
1945
'War and Northern Rhodesia' (Government Printer, Lusaka, 1945). 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 13/4]
1958
'The Crested Crane, Journal of the Northern Rhodesian Regt' (Government Printer, Lusaka, 1958). 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 13/5]
1959
Typescript notes for lectures [by Dimoline], including lecture entitled 'Kenya and the Mau Mau'. 11pp.
[DIMOLINE: 13/6]
[1959]
Pamphlet entitled, 'The King's African Rifles', giving a short background history to the King's African Rifles. 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 13/7]
1960
Pamphlet entitled, 'Kenya 1960', describing the political system of Kenya, with information on Kenya's political parties and the Mau Mau rebellion. 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 13/8]
1962
Pamphlet entitled, 'King's African Rifles and East Africa Forces Officers Dinner Club 1962', listing members of the Dinner Club. 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 13/9]
1963 Jun
The Kenya Regiment Newsletter, June 1963, No 16. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 14] Papers relating to
Dimoline's service as Colonel Commandant,
The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and
The Rhodesian African Rifles, 1954-1965
[DIMOLINE: 14/1/1]
1954 Aug 27-1958 Apr 21
Correspondence relating to Dimoline's service as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including typescript correspondence on re-introduction of mess dress, historical notes on the use of Colours, grant of Queen's Commissions to East Africans and disbandment of 23 King's African Regt. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/1/2]
1958 Jan 8-1959 Dec 29
Correspondence relating to Dimoline's service as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including correspondence on representation of East African troops at Rangoon War Memorial Ceremony, re-appointment of Honorary Colonels, and appointments of Commanding Officers. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/1/3]
1959 Dec 22-1963 Aug 12
Correspondence relating to Dimoline's service as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including correspondence on appointments of Honorary Colonels, postings of new Commaning Officers, and the training of African cadets and African officers. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/1/4]
1963 Aug-1965 Nov
Correspondence relating to Dimoline's service as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including correspondence with Maj David Gethin-Jones on functions of King's African Rifles Regimental representative, and correspondence with Lt Gen Sir Richard Elton Goodwin, 1 (BR) Corps, and Maj Anthony W Davis, General Staff Officer, 2 level, regarding the mutiny of 1 and 2 Bn Tanganyika Rifles, 1964. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/1/5]
1956 Aug 23-1960 Jan 19
Correspondence with Battalions during Dimoline's service as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including correspondence with Brig T H Birkbeck, 70 Infantry Bde, King's African Rifles, on amalgamation of 3 Bde King's African Rifles and 2 Bde 3 Bn King's African Rifles and lists of officers and Non Commissioned Officers serving with Battalions. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/1/6]
1960 Nov 10-1964 May 29
Typescript correspondence with Maj Gen Sir Richard Elton Goodwin, General Officer Commanding, East Africa, during Dimoline's service as Colonel Commandant, the King's African Rifles, the Northern Rhodesian Regt and the Rhodesian African Rifles, relating to a King's African Rifles Liason Officer, War Office, and a pay review for the King's African Rifles, and typescript report on state of Kenya Army by Maj Gen Ian Henry Freeland, Headquarters, Kenya Army, with details on equipment, training and operations against the Shifta (indigenous people of area). 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/1]
1954 Oct 22-1957 Jan 2
File containing material relating to Dimoline's visit to Northern Rhodesia, 22 Oct 1954-2 Jan 1957, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including papers on visit to the unveiling of the Territorial War Memorial, Northern Rhodesia, mostly typescript correspondence with Lt Col Robert A G Prentice, Rhodesia and Nyassaland Staff Corps concerning the unveiling of the memorial, but also including typescript correspondence regarding service of 1 Northern Rhodesian Regt in Malaya, and relief by 1 Rhodesian African Rifles. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/2]
1954 Nov 25-1955 Sep 29
Papers relating to Dimoline's visits to East Africa Command and Central African Command, 25 Nov 1954-29 Sep 1957, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including typescript report by Dimoline on his visit to the King's African Rifles and 1 Bn Rhodesian African Rifles, 1955, typescript instructions relating to the procedures for the presenting of new Colours to 6 and 26 King's African Rifles, and typescript correspondence between Dimoline and Lt Col H P Williams, The War Office, over the provision of British officers for the Colonial Forces. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/3]
1956 Feb 23-1956 Dec 12
Papers relating to Dimoline's inspection visit to East and Central Africa, 23 Feb-12 Dec 1956, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including typescript correspondence with Brig J F Macnab, East African Army Headquarters, H D Dent, Ministry of Defence, Nairobi, Kenya, and Maj Gen Sir Philip Euen Mitchell, Governor of Kenya, on possible renaming of 2 Bde 3 Bn King's African Rifles and 7 King's African Rifles. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/4]
1956 Sep 23-1956 Oct 29
Papers relating to Dimoline's inspection visit to East and Central Africa, 23 Sep-Oct 29 1956, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including typescript programmes for visit, and newspaper cuttings and photographs of Dimoline inspecting battalions. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/5]
1956 Nov
Papers relating to Dimoline's visit to Malaya, Nov 1956, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, specifically to Rhodesian African Rifles and 4 Malay Regt, including typescript programme of visit. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/6]
1957 Jun 3-1957 Oct 7
Papers relating to Dimoline's appointments in UK, 3 Jun-7 Oct 1957, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including appearances as part of King's African Rifles contingent in the Royal Tournament, Edinburgh Tattoo, Bath Tattoo and Woolwich Tattoo. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/7]
1953 Jan 14-1958 Dec 5
Papers relating to Dimoline's visits to East Africa, 14 Jan 1953-5 Dec 1958, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including typescript programmes for visits, typescript correspondence prior to and after visits to East Africa, from Maj Gen Nigel Prior Hanson Tapp, Headquarters, East Africa Command. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/8]
1958 Aug 13-1958 Sep 25
Papers relating to Dimoline's visit to East Africa Command, Nairobi, Southern Rhodesia, 13 Aug-25 Sep 1958, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including programmes for visit. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/9]
1958 Sep 6-1958 Sep 25
Papers relating to Dimoline's visit to Central Africa Command, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, 6-25 Sep 1958, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including programmes for visit and typescript correspndence between Dimoline and Colonel Desmond Lewis, Honorary Colonel, 1 and 2 Bns King's African Rifles. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/10]
1960 Feb 10-1960 Nov 3
Papers relating to Dimoline's visit to East Africa, 10 Feb-3 Nov 1960, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including itinerary for visit to 5 Bn King's African Rifles, 3-5 Aug 1960. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/11]
1961 Jun
Papers relating to Dimoline's inspection visit to Manyuki, South Rhodesia, Jun 1961, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including programme for the visit, minutes of meeting of King's African Rifles Regimental Working Committee, 29 May 1961, and photographs of visit. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/12]
1962 Jan 11-1962 Dec 27
Papers relating to Dimoline's inspection visits to East and Central Africa, 11 Jan-27 Dec 1962, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including typescript correspondence regarding visit to East and Central Africa with Lt Col Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Adeane, Private Secretary to HM Queen Elizabeth II, itinerary for visit, and typescript correspondence with Brig Hon M F Fitzalan-Howard, Headquarters, 70 Infantry Bde, King's African Rifles, Manyuki, Kenya, relating to the disposal of funds of the King's African Rifles Regimental Fund for disbanded King's African Rifles units. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/13]
1962 Jul 19-1962 Sep 9
Papers relating to Dimoline's inspection visit to Nyasaland, 19 Jul-9 Sep 1962, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including programme of events. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/14]
1962 Aug 1-1962 Dec 4
Papers relating to Dimoline's inspection visit to East and Central Africa, 1 Aug-4 Dec 1962, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including typescript correspondece regarding visit with Maj Gen R E B Long, Army Headquarters, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, Capt George E M Stephens, 2 Bn King's African Rifles, Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia and programme of events. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/2/15]
1963 Dec
Papers relating to Dimoline's inspection visit to East Africa, Dec 1963, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including programme of events to units of the King's African Rifles. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/3/1]
1955 Sep 22-1957 Oct 28
Papers relating to King's African Rifles Regimental Committee, 22 Sep 1955-28 Oct 1957, including report of Battle Honours Nomenclature Committee, of the list of classified operations in the Second World War which will count as Honours, and report entitled 'Notes for the guidance of Honorary Colonels of King's African Rifles Battalions', by Brig J F Macnab. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/3/2]
1957 Dec 3-1963 Oct 15
Papers relating to King's African Rifles Regimental Committee, 3 Dec 1957-15 Oct 1963, including typescript instructions on dress regulations for King's African Rifles Battalions, and typescript citation for Sgt Nigel George Leakey's VC, 1 Bde 6 Bn King's African Rifles, 19 May 1941. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/3/3]
1956 Apr 30-1959 Nov 19
Papers relating to Regimental Committees, Central Africa Command, including typescript copies of the constitution of King's African Rifles Regimental Committee (Nyasaland) and King's African Rifles Regimental Committee (East Africa). 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/3/4]
1960 Jan 8-1961 Jul 8
Papers relating to Regimental Committees, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, including typescript copy of the constitution of the Northern Rhodesian Regimental Committee. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/4/1]
1955 Aug 5-1957 Nov 5
Typescript correspondence between Dimoline, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, and Col Hubert Moyse-Bartlett, East Africa Command, relating to the production of the first issue of The King's African Rifles Regimental Journal, and typescript and manuscript correspondence between Dimoline and Gen Sir George James Giffard, on the writing of a Regimental History of King's African Rifles. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/4/2]
1956 Mar 29-1965 May 17
Correspondence relating to the production of The King's African Rifles Regimental Journal, including typescript correspondence between Dimoline, Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, Col Hubert Moyse-Bartlett, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and The Manager, National and Grindlays Bank Ltd, London, mostly relating to the financial accounts of The King's African Rifles Regimental Journal. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/4/3]
1958 Jan 14-1958 Jul 4
File containing correspondence relating to the production of The King's African Rifles Regimental Journal, including typescript correspondence between Dimoline, Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, Col Hubert Moyse-Bartlett, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, including details on the transfer of the production of The King's African Rifles Regimental Journal to Nairobi, South Rhodesia. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/4/4]
1956 Mar 12-1965 Dec 1
Account book and bank statements relating to the production of The King's African Rifles Regimental Journal, 12 Mar-1 Dec 1965. 1 book.
[DIMOLINE: 14/5/1]
1955 Nov 4-1956 Oct 26
Papers relating to the King's African Rifles and East African Forces Officers' Dinner Club, including nominal rolls of those attending dinners of 1955 and 1956. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/5/2]
1957 Jan 3-1961 Nov 1
Papers relating to the King's African Rifles and East African Forces Officers' Dinner Club, including nominal rolls for those attending dinners between 1957-1961, and typescript notes for Dimoline's speech to King's African Rifles Annual Dinner, 1959 and typescript notes for Dimoline's speech at the 1956 King's African Rifles and East African Forces Officers Dinner. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/5/3]
1961 Jun 13-1965 Nov 5
Papers mostly relating to the King's African Rifles and East African Forces Officers' Dinner Club, including typescript notes of Dimoline's speeches, and menus regarding dinners between 1961 and 1965, also including typescript programme of events for the laying-up of 4 King's African Rifles Colours, Kampala, Uganda, 4 Sept 1965. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/1]
1961 Oct 23-1961 Dec 13
Papers relating to Independence celebrations in Tanzania, 23 Oct-3 Dec 1961, including newspaper cuttings concerning Tanganyika's independence and correspondence between Dimoline and Sir Richard Gordon Turbull, Governor of Tanganyika, discussing the renaming of 6 King's African Rifles and 2 Bde 6 Bn King's African Rifles as Tanganyika Rifles, and correspondence between Dimoline and Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Prime Minister of Tanganyika, discussing Dimoline's position as Colonel Commandant of King's Africa Rifles. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/2]
1963 Aug 30-1963 Dec 17
Papers relating to Independence celebrations in Kenya, 30 Aug-17 Dec 1963, including typescript copies of newspaper articles, outlining Dimoline's view of African officers in the King's African Rifles, newspaper cuttings relating to the change in name of units in Kenya of the King's African Rifles to Kenya Rifles, typescript correspondence between Dimoline, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, and Maj Gen Sir Richard Elton Goodwin, General Officer Commanding, East Africa Command concerning Dimoline's travelling arrangements to the Kenyan Independence Celebrations. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/3]
1964 Sep 11-1965 Jan 6
Papers relating to Independence celebrations in Zambia, 11 Sep 1964-6 Jan 1965, including typescript correspondence between Dimoline, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, and Dr David Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia, concerning Dimoline's visit to Zambia for the independence celebrations and the change of name for Northern Rhodesian Regt to Zambia Regt, and typescript programme of events. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/4]
1951 Mar 2-1958 Jun 10
Papers relating to The History of the King's African Rifles (1956, Gale and Polden), by Lt Col Hubert Moyse-Bartlett, including typescript correspondence between Dimoline, Sir George James Giffard, and Gale and Polden Ltd publishers, concerning print runs and sales of The History of The King's African Rifles and letters regarding Dimoline's appointment as Colonel Commandant King's African Rifles. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/5]
1955 Aug 4-1957 Jun 11
Papers relating to the King's African Rifles Display at the Royal Tournament, 7 Jun 1957, including correspondence between Dimoline, Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, and Brig Richard H Maxwell, Vice-Chairman Royal Tournament, on the the initiation of the idea and the evolution of the King's African Rifles Display. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/6]
1963 Jun 23-1965 Jun 1
Papers relating to the Laying up of Colours of 6 King's African Rifles, 2 Bde 6 Btn King's African Rifles, 11 King's African Rifles and 2 King's African Rifles, and correspondence between Dimoline and Lt Col Charles B Appleby, National Army Museum, Sandhurst, Surrey, regarding King's African Rifles exhibits in the National Army Museum. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/7]
1960 Aug 4-1962 Feb 7
Papers relating to the presentation of a King's African Rifles Badge, in the form of a brooch, to HM Queen Elizabeth II, including details on the manufacture of the brooch, the raising of funds, and details of the presentation ceremony. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/8]
1955 Jun 8-1965 Jul 21
Typescript correspondence between Dimoline, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, and Lt Col Rt Hon Sir Michael Edward Adeane, Private Secretary to HM Queen Elizabeth II, including typescript letters relating to the renaming of 1 Bn King's African Rifles as The Malawi Rifles, and the disbandment of 2 Bde 3 Bn King's African Rifles. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/9]
1961 Apr 21-1961 Oct 1
Papers relating to the training of King's African Rifles Officer Cadets at Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, including typescript correspondence between Dimoline, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, and Maj Louis William La Trobe Cockcraft. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/10]
1964 Jan 29-1965 May 24
Papers relating to Army mutinies in Tanganyika (Tanzania), Uganda, Kenya and Zanzibar, including typescript report by Lt Col R S N Mans on the mutiny in 1 Bn Tanganyika Rifles, Jan 1964; typescript letter by Dimoline to members of the King's African Rifles and East African Officers Dinner Club on the mutinies; issue of Soviet News, published by the Press Department of the Soviet Embassy in London, concering relations between USSR and Zanzibar; and typescript report by Brig M J D'A Blackman on the closing down of British Land Forces Kenya, 1965. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/11]
1962 May 4-1962 Sep 13
Papers relating to East African Benevolent Trust, and its transfer to a Services Charity in UK, including correspondence between Dimoline, as Colonel Commandant, The King's African Rifles, The Northern Rhodesian Regt and The Rhodesian African Rifles, and Brig S C Chambers, Headquarters, East Africa Command. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 14/6/12]
1956 Nov 27-1957 Mar 18
Papers including Dimoline's claims for leave earned in Northern Rhodesia, 27 Nov 1956-18 Mar 1957, also containing particulars of Dimoline's movements in first year of Second World War, 1939-1940. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15] Papers relating to
Dimoline's service with the Army Cadet Force Association,
including his Chairmanship of Army Cadet Force Training Committee,
and as Governor of Frimley Hall, 1956-1963
[DIMOLINE: 15/1]
1954 Sep-1961 Oct
Correspondence relating to meetings of the Army Cadet Force Association, including correspondence between Dimoline and General Sir Montagu George North Stopford. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/2]
1954 Oct-1957 Dec
File containing papers relating to leadership training courses for the Army Cadet Force Association, 1954-1957. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/3]
1955 Nov-1957 Feb
Papers relating to study weekends for the Army Cadet Force Association, 1955-1957, including programmes of events and typescript notes for lectures given by Dimoline. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/4]
1955-1958
Photographs of Army Cadet Force King George VI memorial leadership training courses, Warminster, Wilstshire and Chester, Cheshire, 1955-1958. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/5]
1956
Cadet Review, (Journal of the Army Cadet Force) Spring 1956, Vol 6 No 4. 1 vol.
[DIMOLINE: 15/6]
1956 May-1956 July
Cadet Journal and Gazette: Official Organ of the Army Cadet Force Association, May 1956, Vol XVIII, Jun 1956, Vol XVIII, Jul 1956, Vol XVIII. 3 vols.
[DIMOLINE: 15/7]
1956 Nov-1957 Feb
Papers relating to the Army League, including minutes of meetings of The Army League, typescript correspondence between Dimolione and Brig J R Vernham, Secretary, The Army League. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/8]
1956 Dec-1959 Nov
Papers relating to meeting and minutes of the Army Cadet Force Association Executive Committee, and Army Cadet Force Association Council. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/9]
1957 Jan-1957 Feb
Papers relating to the Eastern Command exercise 'High Jump', 5-6 Feb 1957, concerning the problems in maintaining a small force, facing a nuclear threat in a non European country, including Dimoline's typescript notes for a talk on Tanganyika. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/10]
1957
Report of the Committee on Army Cadet Force, published by The War Office (1957, HMSO). 1 pamphlet.
[DIMOLINE: 15/11]
1958 Jan-1962 Mar
Papers relating to the Leadership Training Committee of the Army Cadet Force Association, including typescript correspondence concerning the Leadership Training Committee between Dimoline, Brig M H ap Rhys Pryce, Honorary Secretary, Leadership Training Committee of the Army Cadet Force Association and W F L Newcombe, Honorary Treasurer, Army Cadet Force Association. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/12]
1958 Jan-1965 Jul
Papers relating to the Army Cadet Force Association Training Centre, Frimley Park, Camberley, Surrey, including typescript correspondence concerning the position of Commandant, Frimley Park between W F L Newcombe, Honorary Treasurer, Army Cadet Force Association, Maj Gen Theodore Henry Birkbeck, Director Territorial Army and Cadets and Dimoline; and typescript minutes of the Board of Governors, Army Cadet Force Association Training Centre, Frimley Park, Camberley, Surrey. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/13]
1958 Feb-1958 Apr
Papers relating to the Army Cadet Force Association County Commandants Conference, 12-13 April 1958, including typescript list of County Commandants in attendance and typescript programme of events. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/14]
1958 Apr-1960 Jul
Papers relating to the Publicity and Centenary of the Army Cadet Force Association, including minutes of meetings of The Centenary Committee of the The Army Cadet Force Association, and typescript correspondence between Dimoline and W F L Newcombe, Honorary Treasurer, Army Cadet Force Association. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/15]
1960
File containing pamphlets and newspaper cuttings relating to dinners, dedications and presentations in celebration of the Centenary of the Army Cadet Force. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 15/16]
1962-1963
File containing letters relating to Dimoline's resignation from the Army Cadet Force Training Committee, May 1962, and pamphlet on the Frimley Park National Cadet Training Centre reunion 1963. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 16/1]
1959
Typescript account by Dimoline of drive to Inter-Parliamentary Union Annual Conference, 27 Aug-5 Sep 1959, entitled 'To Warsaw by road, or a glimpse behind the Iron Curtain', also typescript of Mrs Dimoline's account of same journey. 34pp.
[DIMOLINE: 16/2]
1962 Apr-1962 May
Typescript correspondence between Dimoline and Sir Harry Britain, relating to Dimoline's Annual Report on the Inter-Parliamentary Union, 1962. 2pp.
[DIMOLINE: 17] Maps mostly relating to
Dimoline's service in World War One,
Iraq, Nigeria and World War Two, 1914-1943
[DIMOLINE: 17/1/1]
1914
Ordnance Survey map, 'London' (Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton). Scale 1:126,720. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/1/2]
1914
Ordnance Survey map, 'Chatham, Margate, and Hastings', Kent, (Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton). Scale 1:126,720. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/1/3]
[1914-1918]
Map, 'Nord' [Northern France], (Rue St Lazare, Paris). Scale 1:320,000. 1 map in French.
[DIMOLINE: 17/1/4]
[1914-1918]
Manuscript map, 'Arras', France, showing RFA signal lines. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/1/5]
[1914-1918]
Map, 'The Star War Map' [The British Isles and Mainland Europe], (G W Bacon Ltd, The Strand, London). Scale 1:4,000,000. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/2/1]
[1919]
Map, Rhine area south of Köln [used by British Army on the Rhine]. Scale 1:300,00. 1 map in German.
[DIMOLINE: 17/2/2]
[1919]
Map, 'Germany' (War Office, GS/GS No 2739). Scale 1:100,000. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/3/1]
[1919]
Map, 'Waziriastan', Iraq (Survey of India Offices, Calcutta, India). Scale 1:253,440. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/3/2]
1917
Map, 'Nasiriyah', Mesopotamia (Survey of India Offices, Calcutta, India). Scale 1:127,326. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/3/3]
1919
Map, 'Quwan al Hamzah', Mesopotamia (Map Compilation Section GHQ). Scale 1:63,360. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/3/4]
1919
Map, 'Diwaniyah', Mesopotamia (Map Compilation Section GHQ). Scale 1:63,360. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/3/5]
1919
Map, 'Rumaitha and Samawah', Mesopotamia (Map Compilation Section GHQ). Scale 1:63,360. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/4/1]
[1924]
Grid map, 'Bukuru and District', Nigeria. Scale 1:25,000. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/4/2]
1924
Manuscript map, 'Jos district [Nigeria], Motor road map'. Scale 1: 125,000. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/4/3]
1921
Map, 'Nigeria' (Survey Department, Nigeria). Scale 1:200,000. 2 copies. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/4/4]
1909
War Office map, 'Northern Nigeria' (War Office, GS/GS, No 2461). Scale1:200,000. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/5/1]
1929
Ordnance Survey map, 'North Midlands', (Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton). Scale 1:253,440. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/5/2]
1929
Ordnance Survey map, 'Buxton and Matlock', Derbyshire (Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton). Scale 1:633,60. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/5/3]
1928-1929
Part of Ordnance Survey map of Hampshire. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 17/6/1]
1943
Map, 'Aakamisy' Madagascar, showing advance of 1/6 King's African Rifles and 5 King's African Rifles, Madagascar, 27-29 Oct [1942]. Scale 1:50,000. With sketch map of Sicily to show Allied landings, 11-19 Jul 1943, on reverse. 1 map.
[DIMOLINE: 18/1]
[1939]-1962
Photographs relating to Dimoline's service including his visit to King's African Rifles, 1962; photos of Northern Rhodesian Regt, 1950s, and World War Two. 1 box.
[DIMOLINE: 18/2]
1945-1947
Papers and photographs relating to Dimoline's service including photographs of Allied Victory Parade, New Dehli, India, 1946, from Dimoline's tour to India in 1947 as General Officer Commanding, East Africa Command; also including newspaper cuttings from The East African Standard describing action of the 11 (East African) Div in Burma, 1945-1946, typescript of 'Pink Cheeks', 11 (East African) Div Christmas Comedy [1945]. 1 box.
[DIMOLINE: 18/3]
1946-1948
Photographs relating to Dimoline's service including his arrival in Nairobi, Southern Rhodesia, as General Officer Commanding East Africa, 1946; his tour of East African Command, 1947; Armistice Day in Nairobi [1948]; tour of Southern Rhodesia as General Officer Commanding East Africa [1947]; visit to Namibia as General Officer Commanding East Africa, 1947. 1 box.
[DIMOLINE: 18/4]
1946-1965
Photographs relating to Dimoline's service including; newspaper cuttings relating to Dimoline's service General Officer Commanding East African Command, 1946-1948; photographs relating to Dimoline's service as Commander, Aldershot District, 1948-1951; menus and invitations to functions of the King's African Rifles and Northern Rhodesian Regt, 1953-1965; and photographs of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, presenting new Colours to 1 Bn King's African Rifles, Zambia, Jul 1957. 1 file.
[DIMOLINE: 18/5]
1947-1948
Photographs relating to Dimoline's service including his visit as General Officer Commanding, East Africa to Depot Battalion, Command Ordnance Depot, Nairobi, Southern Rhodesia, 1948; and as General Officer Commanding East Africa, to Madagascar, 1947. 1 box.
[DIMOLINE: 18/6]
1955 Jun-1961 Nov
Photographs relating to Dimoline's service including the presentation of Colours to King's African Rifles, Jun 1955; Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Sergeants, 1 Bn Northern Rhodesian Rifles, Sept 1958; Officers 5 King's African Rifles , Sept 1958, and of Dimoline in King's African Rifles Plot at the Field of Remembrance, London. 1 box.
[DIMOLINE: 18/7]
1958-1960
Photographs relating to Dimoline's service including visit to Karachi, 1960; from Anglo-Portuguese Society Dinner, 1960; from Dimoline's holiday in Brazil, 1958; and from Dimoline's service with the Inter-Parliamentary Union. 1 box.
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