COOPER, Raymund Michael
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Raymund Michael COOPER
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1. Memoirs
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: COOPER, Raymund Michael
Dates of creation: 1983
Extent: 1 file
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: material relating to service in the Sudan
Language: English

Raymund Michael COOPER

(1920 - 2007 )

1940-1946 War Service: Royal Artillery
1947-1948 A.D.C. Port Sudan, Kassala
1948-1952 A.D.C. Ed Dueim, Blue Nile Province
1952-1954 D.C. Atbara, Northern Province
1954-1955 D.C. Merowe, Northern Province
1955 Retired from Sudan service


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1. Memoirs

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1. Memoirs
SAD.815/10/1-20
1983
Memoirs by R.M. Cooper of his Sudan service and correspondence concerning them with K.D.D. Henderson (815/10/1-6). Subjects covered include joining the Sudan Political Service (815/10/8); description of Port Sudan and the work there (815/10/9); legal work and executions (815/10/10); trekking in the Red Sea Hills (815/10/11); official exchanges of compliments between the Commissioner and the Captains of naval vessels calling at Port Sudan (815/10/11-12); political demonstrations (815/10/12); transfer to Ed Dueim and description of the district (815/10/13); irrigation schemes (815/10/13-14); trekking to visit the `Umdahs (815/10/14); the political situation (815/10/15); transfer to Atbara as D.C. (815/10/16); transfer to Merowe (815/10/17); concluding overview of the postwar S.P.S. (815/10/18-20)