King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Joined London Irish Rifles 1915; World War I 1915-1918; British Expeditionary Force (BEF) France 1916-1918; Staff Capt, Ministry of Munitions 1918-1920; Maj, Reserve of Officers (Territorial Army) 1920; Joined Colonial Services; sent to Uganda as Assistant Treasurer 1920; called to the Bar, Middle Temple 1924; practised on South Eastern Circuit 1924-1925; Registrar, High Court, Zanzibar 1925-1927; Resident Magistrate, Zanzibar 1927-1928; Crown Counsel, Tanganyika Territory 1929-1932; Assistant legal advisor to the Colonial and Dominions Offices 1933; Attorney General, Gibraltar 1933-1936; Attorney General, Uganda 1937-1940; World War II 1939-1945; Commandant, Ugandan Defence Force 1940; Chief legal advisor, Political Branch, General Headquarters, Middle East 1941; Chief Political Officer, General Headquarters, Middle East 1942-1943; General Staff, War Office 1943-1945; Chief Civil Affairs Officer, Malaya 1945-1946; Secretary General to Governor General of Malaya 1946-1948; Deputy Commissioner General, South East Asia 1948-1949; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, North Borneo 1949-1954; Head of Legal Div, Commonwealth Office 1954-1961; retired, Territorial Army 1956; returned to the Bar 1961; constitutional advisor to Kenyan Government 1961-1962; to Richard Austen Butler on Central Africa 1962; to South Arabian Government 1965-1966; to Bermuda Government 1966

Papers
RHODES HOUSE LIBRARY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY: Papers 1937-1972 (ref: MSS Brit Emp s 407, MSS Ind Ocn s 271), including; correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the administration of Italian colonies in East Africa, and to Malaya, North Borneo, Southern Rhodesia, Kenya, the East African Federation and the Bahamas; SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Hone relating to South East Asia Command 1944-1946 (ref: MB1/C124)

Publications
: Revised edition of the laws of Gibraltar in force on the 31st of December 1935 (Benedict R Miles for Gibraltar Garrison Library Committee, 1936); The statute law of the Bahama Islands, 1799-1965 (Government of the Colony of the Bahama Islands, Nassau, 1965); The subsidiary legislation of the Bahama Islands, 1799-1965 (Government of the Colony of the Bahama Islands, Nassau, 1965)

Index terms
SUBJECTS law 1937-1966; staff 1941-1945
PLACES East Africa 1937-1940; South East Asia 1945-1954; East Africa 1961-1962; Kenya 1961-1962; Middle East 1965-1966; Caribbean 1966
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