Papers of Lt Col Pierce Charles Joyce (1916-1965)
INTRODUCTION
Born in 1878; educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor; 2nd Lt, 1 Bn, Connaught Rangers, 1900; served in South Africa, 1900-1902; Lt, 1902; attached to Egyptian Army, 1907-1917; Capt, 1909; served in Sudan, 1910; Maj 1915; served at Gallipoli, 1915; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Hedjaz (Hejaz) Mission, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917; Base Commandant, 1917-1918; Special Service Officer, Hedjaz (Hejaz) Operations, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1920; employed under Egyptian Government, 1920-1921; employed under Colonial Office as Military Adviser to Iraqi Army, 1921-1927; joined South Staffordshire Regt, 1922; Lt Col, 1924; retired pay, 1932; died in 1965.
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1965 and 1966.
Papers relating to his service in Hedjaz (Hejaz), 1916-1919, dated 1916-1919, 1936, 1963, 1939, 1941, 1963, 1965, principally comprising official correspondence relating to operations against the Turks in Hedjaz, 1916-1918, and supplies and stores for bases at Rabegh, Wedj, Yenbo, Akaba and Abu Lissal, 1916-1918, and including letters to and from Thomas Edward Lawrence (later Shaw), Col Cyril Edward Wilson, Gen Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, and Lt Col Alan Geoffrey Charles; correspondence and notes concerning the meeting between Emir Feisal (later Feisal I, King of Iraq) and Dr Chaim Weizmann on 4 Jun 1918, dated [1918] and 1963; typescript text on the history and future of the Arab movement, [1919]; scripts concerning his service with Lawrence in Hedjaz, 1916-1918, written for television broadcasts in 1939 and 1941; official reports on bomb attacks on the Hedjaz railway by X Flight and No 14 Sqn personnel, 1917-1918; official reports of reconnaissance flights by X Flight and No 14 Sqn, 1917-1918; diary by Capt H S Hornby describing raids on the Hedjaz railway, May 1917 and May 1918; account by Lt Col Frederick Gerard Peake of Turkish attack on Tafas, Sep 1918, dated 1965.
Arranged in the following sections: correspondence books; reports on bomb attacks; reconnaissance reports; general correspondence; meeting of Emir Feisal and Dr Weizmann; miscellaneous; intelligence documents; second accession. The papers were formerly known as the Akaba collection.
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Mostly English, but some Arabic and French.