Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Forbes, Walter Arthur Hastings
Dates of creation: 1938-1979
Extent: 2 files
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Forbes, Walter Arthur Hastings
Language:
English
(1905 - 1987)
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| 1932-1936 | Bimbashi, Equatorial Corps, Sudan Defence Force |
| 1936-1938 | Bimbashi, Western Arab Corps, Sudan Defence Force |
| 1938 | A.D.C., Malakal, Upper Nile Province |
| 1939-1941 | A.D.C., Bor, Upper Nile Province |
| 1941-1945 | Kaimakam and Miralai, Western Arab Corps, Sudan Defence Force |
| 1945-1947? | Assistant Game Warden, Game Preservation Branch, Civil Secretary's Office |
| 1948?-1953 | Game Warden, Game Preservation Branch, Civil Secretary's Office |
| 1954 | Game Warden, Game Preservation Branch, Ministry of the Interior |
| 1955 | Director, Game and Fisheries Department, Ministry of Animal Resources |
| 1955 | Retired from the Sudan |
1. Memoirs
2. Photographic Material
3. Maps
4. Newspaper Cuttings
5. Printed Material
Presented by Forbes, 1985
Catalogue
1. Memoirs
SAD.863/3/1-45
1979
Transcript of interview with W.A.H. Forbes by Dr. D.H. Johnson for the Oxford Development Records Project concerning the British officers and the Sudanese soldiers of the Sudan Defence Force. The interview covers, not in strict chronological
order, the phases of Forbes's career:
SAD.863/3/3-5
1905-1932
Forbes's family background, education and early military career in China, Egypt and India
SAD.863/3/5-7
1932
Joining the Sudan Defence Force and first impressions of the Sudan
SAD.863/3/8-25
1932-1936
The Equatorial Corps: first impressions, recruitment, uniforms, equipment, duties, routine, local porters, languages, discipline, witchcraft and religion, medicine, recreation, rations, soldiers' families, promotion, veterans, leave arrangements,
etc.
SAD.863/3/25-35
1936-1938
The Western Arab Corps: differences from the "Equats", uniform, training, equipment, duties, routine, discipline, recruitment, literacy, recreation, religion, marriage, pay, promotion, type of horses used, etc.
SAD.863/3/35-37
1941-1945
War service: Forbes's promotion and duties, and the equipment and recruitment of the soldiers under his command
SAD.863/3/37-45
1938-1941
Forbes's period in the Sudan Political Service: joining the S.P.S., duties of the Sudanese clerks and police, taxes, tribal disputes, relations with local chiefs, medicine and health, the presence of Northerners in the south and the Southern
Policy, and Forbes's predecessors in the region
2. Photographic Material
SAD.856/1/1-29
[1938-1955]
Photographs of wildlife and fishing
3. Maps
4. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.863/3/46
1948 Nov 5
“Game animals of the southern Sudan” by Forbes, from
Country Life
5. Printed material
Separated printed material now in Durham University Library
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue
Happold, D.C.D., “The future for wildlife in the Sudan” (repr. from Oryx. Journal of the Fauna Preservation Society, Dec. 1966 v.8 no.6)
Sudan Game and Fisheries Dept: A guide to hunting in the Sudan (Khartoum, 1955)
Sudan Game and Fisheries Dept: The preservation of wild animals ordinance and regulations, 1935 (amended up to 30 Nov 1960) (Khartoum, 1960)
Sudan Game Preservation Branch: Annual report, 1950-51 (Khartoum, 1951)
Sudan Game Preservation Branch: News Letter (Khartoum?, Sep 1948)
Sudan Game Preservation Branch: Sudan wildlife and sport v.1 nos.3-4, v.2 nos.1-4, v.3 pt.1, v.4 pt.2 (8v) (Khartoum, Jun 1950-Dec 1953
