Private Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Harry Wetherall KBE CB DSO MC

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Three official reports (total 156pp plus maps and appendices) of the operations of the East Africa Force during their successful campaigns against the Italians in Italian and British Somaliland and Abyssinia, November 1940 - July 1941, and in particular of the operations of 11th (African) Division under Major General Wetherall in Abyssinia, including the capture of Addis Abeba; also an almost complete ts draft (427pp) of the official history of the participation of South African forces in the East African and Abyssinian campaigns, 1940 - 1941.

Content description

History note

Cataloguer Backlog

History note

Catalogue date 1980-01-18

Object Details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Wetherall, Harry Edward de Robillard
Dimensions: whole: 1 Box
Catalogue number: Documents.11473

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