IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Clifford
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: CLIFFORD, Col Esmond Humphrey Miller (1895-1970)
Date(s): Created 1892-1960
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 7 boxes or 0.07 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Clifford | Esmond Humphrey Miller | 1895-1970 | Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1895; educated at Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered Army, 1914; service in World War One, France and Belgium, 1915-1917 and Italy, 1917-1919; Assistant British Commissioner, Anglo-Italian Jubaland Boundary Commission, 1925-1928; Senior British Commissioner, British Somaliland-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1931-1936; Chief Engineer, China Command, 1940-1941; Prisoner of War, 1941-1945; retired in 1948; British Commissioner, Kenya-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1950-57; died in 1970.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Narrative of operations of 7 Division, 1918 by the Revd E C Crosse including reference to Clifford's service as Officer Commanding 95 Field Company, Royal Engineers; papers relating to Anglo-Italian Jubaland Boundary Commission, 1925-1928 including maps; British Somaliland-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1931-1936, including intelligence reports on French Somaliland, air survey operations, Walwal incident between Italian and Ethiopian troops, and printed reports on the work of the Commission; Chief Engineer, China Command, including report on Royal Engineers in Hong Kong, 1941-1942; Kenya-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, 1950-1957, including diaries, 1951-1955, printed reports, and maps of the boundary, 1946-1949; published articles by Clifford, 1928-1947, mainly on boundary commissions; technical manuals, 1924-1932, including surveying; publications and printed works, 1892-1952, including boundary commissions.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The papers are arranged in sections according to chronology of military service. Published articles by Clifford, technical manuals and publications and printed works are grouped together.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1988.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996