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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

CLIFFORD, Col Esmond Humphrey Miller (1895-1970)


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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Boundaries | Territorial rights | Rights of states | International law
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Maps | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents
Surveying

Personal names
Clifford | Esmond Humphrey Miller | 1895-1970 | Colonel
Crosse | Ernest Coutenay | 1887-1955 | Reverend Canon

Corporate names
British Army
Royal Engineers

Places
China | East Asia
Djibouti | East Africa
Ethiopia | East Africa
Hong Kong | East Asia
Italy | Western Europe | Europe
Jubaland | East Africa
Kenya | East Africa
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Somalia | East Africa
Abyssinia x Ethiopia
British East Africa x Kenya
British Somaliland x Somalia
French Somaliland x Djibouti