IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380001
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies
Title: Burma Regiment: Chin Hills Battalion
Date(s): [1897-1947]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): British Army | Burma Regiment | Chin Hills Battalion
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Chin Hills Battalion was formed in 1894.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Typescript account, undated, of the Chin Hills Battalion, Burma Regiment, British Army, over the period 1894-1947, comprising reports written by various officers [1897-1947], including accounts of operations and some lists of personnel. The section for the period 1894-1897 was not written at the time, but compiled in 1897 or 1898 from various sources.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Database.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented in 1978.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London, holds typescript histories of the Chin Hills Battalion written by Lt Col Alleyn Cardwell Moore (Ref: Moore). The British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, contain relevant material among the India Office records.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2002