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Unique IDCWGC/1/1/9/D/32
Alt Ref NoWG 219/12/8
TitleMemorials To Missing - East Africa - Inscriptions
DescriptionMain topics: choice of inscriptions for memorials to native African troops; policy re inscribing names of tribes; languages for inscriptions; advice of Native Commissioner and local committee; composition and script for Arabic translation; J. Stevenson's work on the memorial sculptures; inscriptions for memorials to non-African missing in East Africa; correction of error in inscription.
Date28/4/1924 - 6/2/1930
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Content NoteIncluding: Correspondence with R. Kipling re suggesting inscriptions; 29 May 1924 - 28 July 1924. Letter criticising Swahili translation; 21 Oct. 1924. Correspondence with F. Kenyon re Arabic translation; 7 July 1925 - 13 Sep. 1925. Letter referring to H. Baker's part in selecting site at Mombassa (Mombasa); 19 Dec. 1925. Also correspondence re origins of East African memorial inscriptions; 10 Feb. 1966 - 14 June 1966.
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CollectionArchive
CategoryArchive
ArchNoteKIPLING CORRESPONDENCE REFERS ALSO TO BASRA MEMORIAL.

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DS/UK/3Kenyon; Sir; Frederic George (1863-1952); Greek and biblical scholar and museum director1863-1952
DS/UK/4Kipling; (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936); writer and poet1865-1936
DS/UK/6Baker; Sir; Herbert (1862-1946); architect and author1862-1946
DS/UK/39Stevenson; James Alexander (1881-1937); sculptor1881-1937
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