Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Gill, William Henry
Dates of creation: [1920s]-[1940s]
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Gill, William Henry
Language:
English
(fl. 1914 - 1935)
| | |
| 1914-1917 | Staff Sergeant Dispenser, British Army |
| 1917-1921 | Egyptian Army service |
| 1921-1929 | Clerk, Sudan Medical Service |
| 1930-1931 | Chief Clerk, Sudan Medical Service |
| 1932-1935 | Superintendent, Sudan Medical Service |
1. Personal Papers
2. Speeches
3. Memoirs
4. Photographic Material
(a) Mounted Photographs
(b) Loose Photographs
Presented by Mr P. Gill, 2009
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.331/3/1
1935 Oct 17
Letter from Khalifa Mahjub, translator for the Sudan Medical Service, to Gilll, appealing against his transfer to Kassala
SAD.331/3/2
[1930s]
Invitation to Peter [Gill's son?] to attend DIana and Simon Maffey's party (children of Sir John Maffey, Governor-General)
SAD.331/3/3
[ca. 1950]
Draft letter from Gill to Dr C [Cruickshank?] offering his assistance with compiling a history of the Sudan Medical Service (see below under Memoirs)
2. Speeches
SAD.331/3/4-8
1937 Jun 25
Paper by W. H. Gill, entitled
“A note on public health and medical work in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”, read at a general meeting of the Association of Public Health Chief Clerks
SAD.331/3/9-11
[ca. 1940s]
Incomplete talk by Mrs Ellen Gill, recalling her time in the Sudan and giving a potted history of the country
3. Memoirs
SAD.331/3/12-13
[1940s]
Brief memoir by Gill of the Sudan Medical Service, probably compiled by as a contribution to Dr [Cruickshank's?] history of the service (see SAD.331/3/3 above)
4. Photographic Material
SAD.332/1/1-20
[1920s]
Photographs mounted on album sleeves, including:
SAD.332/1/1-3,6
[1920s]
Crowds at King's Day celebrations, Khartoum
SAD.332/1/4
[1920s]
Two British officials, with J.L. Maffey on the right
SAD.332/1/5
[1920s]
Three inidentified British officials, possibly including W. H. Gill
SAD.332/1/7
[1920s]
Passengers on board the steam tram, Khartoum
SAD.332/1/8
[1920s]
Tree lined street, probably Khartoum
SAD.332/1/9
[1920s]
Sudanese man sitting on the ground, with mud-brick buildings in the background
SAD.332/1/10
[1920s]
Sudanese man operating a
shaduf
SAD.332/1/11
[1920s]
Crowd of Sudanese with wooden ferris wheel in the background, probably Omdurman
SAD.332/1/12
[1920s]
Mounted soldiers or police on parade, probably at a military review
SAD.332/1/13
[1920s]
Sudanese merchants selling produce at a
suq, probably Omdurman
SAD.332/1/14
[1920s]
Northern Sudanese children dressed in white
jallabiyahs
SAD.332/1/19
[1920s]
Northern Sudanese men and women on a ferry
SAD.328/6/1-10
[1920s-1930s]
Photographs of Khartoum and Omdurman:
SAD.328/6/1
[1920s-1930s]
Blue Nile bridge between Khartoum and Khartoum North
SAD.328/6/2
[1920s-1930s]
Khartoum mosque
SAD.328/6/3-4
[1920s-1930s]
The Palace, Khartoum (SAD.328/6/4 by Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/5
[1920s-1930s]
View down Victoria Avenue looking towards the Governor-General's palace, showing the Kitchener School of Medicine and Wellcome Research laboratories (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/6
[1920s-1930s]
War Office, designed by G. B. Bridgman, with the statue of Kitchener in the foreground (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/7
[1920s-1930s]
All Saints' Cathedral, Khartoum (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/8
[1920s-1930s]
Cannon in front of the Khalifa's House Museum, Omdurman (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/9-10
[1920s-1930s]
Typical residence of a British official
SAD.328/6/11-18
[ca. 1920s-1930s]
Photographs of Suakin:
SAD.328/6/11
[1920s]
View from Suakin across the causeway, with the Wakala or Caravanserai in the foreground (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/12
[1920s]
Gordon gate, Suakin (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/13
[1920s]
Suakin houses with wooden roshans (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/14
[1920s]
Omar Effendi Obeid's house at Suakin (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/15-16
[1920s]
Suakin houses, immediately behind the Gordon gate (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/17
[1920s]
Street and houses in Suakin, including the Hanafi mosque (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/18
[1920s]
Suakin street scene (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/19-23
[1920s]
Photographs of Kassala Province:
SAD.328/6/19-20
[1920s]
Hadanduwah mock battle (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/21
[1920s]
Three Bija men holding spears (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/22-23
[1920s]
Bija man holding spear and wooden club (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/24-30
[1920s]
Photographs of military personnel:
SAD.328/6/24
[1920s]
Sudanese police guard standing to attention, Khartoum (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/25
[1920s]
Sudan Defence Force soldiers standing to attention (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/26
[1920s-1930s]
Military tattoo with crowd of onlookers (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/27-30
1933-1934
Floodlit military tattoo, with General Gordon's veterans in the foreground (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/31-36
[1920s-1930s]
Photographs of different forms of transport:
SAD.328/6/31-32
[1920s-1930s]
Khartoum station (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/33
[1920s-1930s]
Feluccas on the banks of the Nile with cargo piled up on the foreshore (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/34
[1920s-1930s]
Felucca moored at the edge of the Nile (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/35
[1920s-1930s]
Elfin, a side-paddle steamer, on the banks of the Nile
SAD.328/6/36
[1920s-1930s]
The steamer
Sudan from the Halfa Reach, moored on the banks of the Nile (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/37-41
[1920s-1930s]
Photographs of trade and industry:
SAD.328/6/37-38
[1920s-1930s]
Tanner at work, Northern Sudan (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/39-40
[1920s-1930s]
Sudanese traders at a
suq, Northern Sudan (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/41
[1920s-1930s]
Sudanese women raising water for their herds from a well, Northern Sudan (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/42-44
1934
Photographs of the construction of Jabal Aulia dam
SAD.328/6/45-47
[1930s]
Photographs taken in the Libyan Desert:
SAD.328/6/48-52
[1920s-1930s]
Photographs of British personnel and their families:
SAD.328/6/48
1930
Children of British officials, Khartoum Club (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/49
[1920s-1930s]
Group of British officials and their wives in evening dress at a social occasion (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/50
[1920s-1930s]
Group of British officials in fancy dress at the Khartoum Club (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.328/6/51
[1920s-1930s]
British officials standing next to a German biplane, “Zigeuner”
SAD.328/6/52
[1920s-1930s]
Bishop L. H. Gwynne performing a religious service
SAD.328/6/53
[1920s-1930s]
Photograph of an unidentified mosque with large industrial building in the background
