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Object description
Copy of an unpublished article (17pp ts), 'Law Enforcement in former British African Territories', by David Cracknell, outlining his own involvement with the subject, initially as a Trooper with the British South Africa Police during the early stages of the Second World War, then as an Inspector of the Eritrea Police Force at Asmara from 1941 to 1947 when he resigned with the rank of Deputy Commissioner, command of the Somalia Gendarmerie and Police 1948 - 1950, and Commissioner of Police in Eritrea 1950 - 1954; article (4pp ts) by Cracknell concerning the internment in Eritrea of Jewish activists during 1944 - 1947, including members of the terrorist groups Irgun and LEHI, with particular reference to the numerous escapes which took place; article (2pp ts) by Cracknell on the Eritrean 'warlord' Hamid Idris Awate; record (5pp ts) of a meeting between Cracknell and an Eritrean journalist concerning the former's work in that country; website article (6pp ts) by Yehuda Lapidot on the internment of Jewish detainees by the British in Eritrea, the Sudan and Kenya, 1944 - 1948; article (22pp) by Shulamit Eliash on 'The escape of [Yitzak] Shamir and [Aryeh] Ben Eliezer from Africa' (Bar-Ilan Studies in History offprint, no date).
Content description
Copy of an unpublished article (17pp ts), 'Law Enforcement in former British African Territories', by David Cracknell, outlining his own involvement with the subject, initially as a Trooper with the British South Africa Police during the early stages of the Second World War, then as an Inspector of the Eritrea Police Force at Asmara from 1941 to 1947 when he resigned with the rank of Deputy Commissioner, command of the Somalia Gendarmerie and Police 1948 - 1950, and Commissioner of Police in Eritrea 1950 - 1954; article (4pp ts) by Cracknell concerning the internment in Eritrea of Jewish activists during 1944 - 1947, including members of the terrorist groups Irgun and LEHI, with particular reference to the numerous escapes which took place; article (2pp ts) by Cracknell on the Eritrean 'warlord' Hamid Idris Awate; record (5pp ts) of a meeting between Cracknell and an Eritrean journalist concerning the former's work in that country; website article (6pp ts) by Yehuda Lapidot on the internment of Jewish detainees by the British in Eritrea, the Sudan and Kenya, 1944 - 1948; article (22pp) by Shulamit Eliash on 'The escape of [Yitzak] Shamir and [Aryeh] Ben Eliezer from Africa' (Bar-Ilan Studies in History offprint, no date).
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Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2002-12