Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Calder, Donald and Mrs Mary
Dates of creation: [1946]-c.1955, c.1990
Extent: 1 file; 1 audio recording
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Calder, Donald and Mrs Mary
Language: English; and add any other secondary languages here without element tags
(1916 - 1988)
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| 1939-1941 | Assistant District Commissioner (trainee), Headquarters, El Obeid, Kordofan Province |
| 1941-1942 | Assistant District Commissioner, Rashad, Eastern Jebels District, Kordofan Province |
| 1942-1944 | Assistant District Commissioner, Bara, Northern District, Kordofan Province |
| 1944-1945 | Assistant District Commissioner, Wadi Halfa, Wadi Halfa District, Northern Province |
| 1945-1947 | Assistant District Commissioner, Malakal, Northern District, Upper Nile Province |
| 1947-1949 | Assistant District Commissioner, Renk, Northern District, Upper Nile Province |
| 1949 | District Commissioner, Renk, Upper Nile Province |
| Nov 1949-Jul 1950 | District Commissioner, Social Development, Headquarters (Civil Secretary's Office), Hassaheissa, Blue Nile Province |
| Jul 1950 | seconded to the Gezira Board |
| Jul 1950-Apr 1952 | Gezira Information Officer, Musaad, Blue Nile Province |
| Apr 1952-1955 | District Commissioner, Local Government Inspector, Headquarters, Ed Damer, Northern Province |
| 1955 | Retired |
(1923 - 2019)
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| [1939 x 1946] | Inter-Services Liaison Department, Middle East |
1. Personal Papers
2. Audio Material
Presented by Mrs Rosemary Mulady, 2013; Ian Calder, 2024
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.1074/5/1-20
c.1990
“Eight years in the Sudan” [1946-1952]. Illustrated text of a lecture by Mary Calder (née Allbright) (1923 - 2019) given to Clachan Rural [Scottish Women's Institute] in c. 1990. Calder was the wife of District
Commissioner Donald Calder (1916-1988). Relates: wartime employment in the Inter-Services Liaison [Department]; journey from Palestine to Malakal; marriage at Malakal United Church, and reception at the Governor's house, 26 March 1946, reported in
the
Sudan Star; honeymoon upriver on board the Sudan Medical Service hospital ship
Lady Baker; first house at Malakal; employment of prisoners; treks; transfer to Renk; appearance of Dinka
people and villages; floods and bridges; Uduk twins; Mabaan people, dislike of clothes; Gezira scheme; house at Musaad; children Rosemary, Alan, Ian; domestic staff. Includes: general map of Africa; map of north-east Africa; ethnic map of southern
Sudan (SAD.1074/5/8); inset photographs (listed below), many by J.F.E. Bloss. Typescript
SAD.1074/5/2
[1946]
Photograph of the London home of Allbright family, showing significant V1 bomb damage. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/5A
[1946]
Photographs of a Nile steamer and barge, mid-river. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/5B
[1946]
Donald Calder, in uniform, with Mary Calder at their wedding, with Irene Nicholson, bridesmaid. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/6
[1946]
Photograph of the
Lady Baker steamer, with barge, moored to a Nile riverbank. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/8
[1946]
Photograph of the Calder's house at Malakal, showing enclosed sleeping-out platform on the roof-top. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/8-10A
[1947 x 1949]
Four photographs of [Paloich] Dinka men wearing elaborate bead and metal jewellery and other adornment as capes, necklaces, arm bands, headdresses. Photocopies of photographs.
SAD.1074/5/8B and 9A-B are duplicates of SAD.884/4/24 and 28-29, photographs by Dr J.F.E. Bloss
SAD.1074/5/10B-11A
[1947 x 1949]
Two photographs of [Paloich Dinka] village scenes, showing thatched homes, one with thorn twigs “to keep the goats off”. Photocopies of photographs.
SAD.1074/5/10A is a duplicate of SAD.884/4/32, a photograph by Dr J.F.E. Bloss of Paloich Dinka women and children in front of
tukls
SAD.1074/5/11B
[1947 x 1949]
Photograph of planked causeway over flooded area, with lorry approaching. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/12A
[1947 x 1949]
Photograph of an Uduk mother with twin infants. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/12B
[1947 x 1949]
Photograph of a Mabaan mother, smoking a pipe, with a child on her lap.
Duplicate of SAD.884/6/1, a photograph by Dr J.F.E. Bloss
SAD.1074/5/13A
[1947 x 1949]
Photograph of Mabaan women building a doorway to a dwelling. Photocopy of photograph.
Duplicate of SAD.893/1/10, a photograph by Dr J.F.E. Bloss
SAD.1074/5/13B-14A
[1947 x 1949]
Two photographs of Mabaan people and village scenes, showing cooking pots, livestock, houses. Photocopies of photographs.
SAD.1074/5/13B is a duplicate of SAD.884/6/10, a photograph by Dr J.F.E. Bloss
SAD.1074/5/14A is a duplicate of SAD.706/1/10, a photograph by Dr J.F.E. Bloss taken near the Ethiopian border
SAD.1074/5/14B-15
[1947 x 1949]
Three photographs of Mabaan women on a fishing expedition, with fishing baskets. Photocopies of photographs.
SAD.1074/5/14B is a duplicate of SAD.706/1/1, a photograph by Dr J.F.E. Bloss taken at Boing, near the Ethiopian border
SAD.1074/5/15A-B are duplicates of SAD.884/6/12 and 14, photographs by Dr J.F.E. Bloss
SAD.1074/5/16A
[1947 x 1949]
Photograph of Mabaan women, noting scarification. Photocopy of photograph.
Duplicate of SAD.884/6/8, a photograph by Dr J.F.E. Bloss
SAD.1074/5/16B
[1947 x 1949]
Photograph of Donald Calder, D.C. Renk, and another man standing with six Mabaan women during a campaign to encourage the wearing of clothes. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/17A
[1947 x 1949]
Photograph of a Mabaan bull. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/17B
[1947 x 1949]
Photograph of a group of Mabaan men and boys with their hunting dogs. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/18A
[1949 x 1952]
Photograph of a helicopter spraying Gezira crops. Photocopy of photograph.
Duplicate of SAD.711/2/4: Helicopter spraying a field of cotton to control the jassid pest
SAD.1074/5/18B
[1949 x 1952]
Photograph of Gezira labourers carrying baskets of maize. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/19
[1950 x 1952]
Two photographs of Donald Calder with his infant daughter Rosie and pet dog Angus at their house at Musaad; and of Mary Calder with her children Rosie and Alan, and their ducks and pet dog outside their kitchen. Photocopies of photographs
SAD.1074/5/20A
[1950 x 1954]
Photograph of a ‘gully gully’ Sudanese man carrying snakes. Photocopy of photograph
SAD.1074/5/20B
[1952 x 1954]
Photograph of a group of Sudanese people and livestock around a well. Photocopy of photograph
2. Audio Material
SAD.999/5
[ca. 1955]
Audio recording of a comic song
“We're public servants old and bleary, we've been a very long time here...” and sketch between two British officials, “Mornin' Guv'nor”, reminiscing about former Sudan Political
Service staff. Both were probably composed at the time of the departure of the British administration in 1955, and recorded onto 78 rpm gramophone record
CD; 3 min 18 sec & 3 min 15 sec
