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Sir Peter Buck - Documents of biographical interest
- Date
- 1862-[1950s]
- Reference
- MS-Papers-0196-340A
- Description
Contains a 11-page carbon copy of a handwritten report by Buck, titled `With the Maori Contingent - Egypt', written in 1915. With it is a 5-page typescript of it, by Eric Ramsden, with the note that the report was found in one of Buck's field notebooks.
The report describes the contingent's experiences and relates an incident in Egypt when the Maori troops, with Buck as their spokesman, protested about being sent on garrison duty at Khartoum, rather than being sent to the front.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Provenance: Papers received from Ramsden by the General Assembly Library.
Transfers: Other material originally in this folder is now at MS-Papers-0196-340D.
Processing information: Part of WW100 digitisation project
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962 : Papers
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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