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File of copies of letters, reports, memoranda etc relating to No 301 (West African) Base Ordnance Depot, Lagos, Nigeria, which he commanded while on attachment to West Africa Command Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), April 1943 - April (?) 1945, including a note of the layout of the ordnance services in the Command, and reports on accounting problems and procedures, provision problems and procedures, experiences with African clerks and storemen, and on the mobilisation of 81 and 82 West African Divisions; together with an illustrated report on a visit to West Africa, 1943 - 1945, with notes and photographs covering mosquito control, storage conditions, and the civilian scene on the Gold Coast and in Nigeria; and a wall chart showing in cartoon form the progress of issue vouchers from the beginning of the procedure to the final destination of the stores used as a guide for the illiterate West African storemen.
History note
Catalogue date 1907-05
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Cataloguer PJT
