Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- spanning 1940-1943 (Creation)
- 1985 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copy of typescript memoirs of the service in Africa of John Pitt, 1940-1943, entitled 'Adui Mbele (Enemy in Front): Some Recollections of a Platoon Commander in the East African Campaign (1940-41) and on Brigade Staff in Madagascar (1942-43)', detailing the arrival in South Africa of Pitt, the background to the campaign, personalities and expeditionary summaries.
System of arrangement
One file of memoirs.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1907; Rhodes scholar from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1929; forester in Colonial Forest Service, Tanganyika, East Africa; returned to UK, 1939; served 22 (EA) Infantry Bde, Abyssinia, 1940-1942, as platoon commander of the 1/6 (Tanganyika) King's African Rifles; Madagascar, 1942-1943; died 1996.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by John Pitt in 1989.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of copies
John Pitt informed the Centre in 1989 that he had offered the Imperial War Museum and National Army Museum copies of the recollections.
Related materials
Note
Compiled Mar 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Pitt, Charles John William, 1907-1996, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.