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Object description
[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Original documents, relating to his service in the Rhodesia Regiment, Kings African Rifles, and as a Captain in the Somaliland Camel Corps, 1939-1943, plus others 1944, and papers relating to his activities with a Zionist youth group in South Africa.
Words of welcome by him to the first Seder in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) organised by the Salisbury Zionist Youth Society, of which he was Chairman (Passover, 1939); 14 letters (7pp) to him from members of the Zionist Youth, (October 1939); a page from the journal 'The South African Menorah' (December 1939) containing a letter he sent in; three letters from friends and family; his call up for Medical Examination (March 1939); his Southern Rhodesia Defence Force ID card; his Southern Rhodesia Driver's Licence; his Southern Rhodesia Certificate of Release of an Officer (June 1945); copies of papers relating to his change of name from Davidowitz to Davids (7pp, September - October 1944); Ethnographic map of Somalia with ts notes (20pp) by Captain J Trevor about the various tribes, racial history, characteristics, diet, religion and demography; papers relating to a move to KodaYera (May 1940) with Operation Orders to delay the enemy advance at the Karin Pass, Somalia; a ts list (1p) of daily rations for Officers and British NCOs in the SCC (November 1939); ts notes (3pp) on the purchase of Riding Camels in British Somaliland; a request by Davidowitz to transfer from the SCC to a unit in Palestine in line with his Zionist views, and replies in the negative (3pp, May 1941); ts papers (6pp) relating to the farewell parade when the SCC became a motorised unit (May 1944); a ms list (1p) of the arms and ammunition contained in a fort; a copy of a proclamation (2pp) relating to the disbanding of the SCC after mutinies and the theft of weapons, with copies of two reports (4pp, with a duplicate, and 5pp), detailing the proposed reorganisation of the SCC to reduce it to a Cadre, disarm the troops and take prisoners to trial (June - July 1944); an Order of Service for a VE Day United Thanksgiving Service at the Town Hall, Kroonstad (13 May 1945); Rhodesia Herald (n.d., 1940) article about the rearguard action in Somaliland; postwar cuttings of newspaper interviews with Davids (1972 - 1997), from the West Rand Times and the Krugersdorp News.
Content description
[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Original documents, relating to his service in the Rhodesia Regiment, Kings African Rifles, and as a Captain in the Somaliland Camel Corps, 1939-1943, plus others 1944, and papers relating to his activities with a Zionist youth group in South Africa.
Words of welcome by him to the first Seder in Salisbury, Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe) organised by the Salisbury Zionist Youth Society, of which he was Chairman (Passover, 1939); 14 letters (7pp) to him from members of the Zionist Youth, (October 1939); a page from the journal 'The South African Menorah' (December 1939) containing a letter he sent in; three letters from friends and family; his call up for Medical Examination (March 1939); his Southern Rhodesia Defence Force ID card; his Southern Rhodesia Driver's Licence; his Southern Rhodesia Certificate of Release of an Officer (June 1945); copies of papers relating to his change of name from Davidowitz to Davids (7pp, September - October 1944); Ethnographic map of Somalia with ts notes (20pp) by Captain J Trevor about the various tribes, racial history, characteristics, diet, religion and demography; papers relating to a move to KodaYera (May 1940) with Operation Orders to delay the enemy advance at the Karin Pass, Somalia; a ts list (1p) of daily rations for Officers and British NCOs in the SCC (November 1939); ts notes (3pp) on the purchase of Riding Camels in British Somaliland; a request by Davidowitz to transfer from the SCC to a unit in Palestine in line with his Zionist views, and replies in the negative (3pp, May 1941); ts papers (6pp) relating to the farewell parade when the SCC became a motorised unit (May 1944); a ms list (1p) of the arms and ammunition contained in a fort; a copy of a proclamation (2pp) relating to the disbanding of the SCC after mutinies and the theft of weapons, with copies of two reports (4pp, with a duplicate, and 5pp), detailing the proposed reorganisation of the SCC to reduce it to a Cadre, disarm the troops and take prisoners to trial (June - July 1944); an Order of Service for a VE Day United Thanksgiving Service at the Town Hall, Kroonstad (13 May 1945); Rhodesia Herald (n.d., 1940) article about the rearguard action in Somaliland; postwar cuttings of newspaper interviews with Davids (1972 - 1997), from the West Rand Times and the Krugersdorp News.
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