Cormack, George E
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0102 MS 380660 |
Held at | : School of Oriental and African Studies Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html › |
Full title | : Cormack, George E |
Date(s) | : Created 1912-1919 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 box |
Name of creator(s) | : Cormack | George E | 1886-1959 | businessman and soldier |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
George E Cormack was born in 1886. He spent the period 1913-1917 in Manchuria as a business representative, returning to Britain escorting a gang of Chinese labourers destined for the Chinese Labour Corps. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in North Russia between 1918-1919 and this was followed by a brief sojourn in South Russia, 1919-1920. He then worked in Estonia and Latvia as a shipping agent, 1924-1940. He returned to northern Russia from 1941-1942 as a Ministry of War Transport representative with the Murmansk convoys. He died in 1959.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Photographic material, 1912-1919, of George Cormack, comprising 42 glass slides, c1912-1919, principally of Manchuria and the Chinese Labour Corps, and an album of photographs, 1912-1913, relating to a visit on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Siberia and North Manchuria.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
The material is arranged in chronological order.
Conditions governing access:
Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Finding aids:
Unpublished handlist.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated in 1995 and 1996.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Memoirs and papers of George Cormack are held at the Imperial War Museum Department of Documents (Ref: 92/21/1) and two photograph albums at the Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive (Ref: 9205-03).
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
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Date(s) of descriptions:
15 May 2000
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