Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: McJannet, Frederick Douglas
Dates of creation: 1937-1982
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: McJannet, Frederick Douglas
Language:
English
(1914 - 1987)
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| 1936-1938 | A.D.C. Ed Dueim, White Nile Province/Sub-Province |
| 1938-1940 | A.D.C. Wad Medani and Sennar, Blue Nile Province/Gezira |
| 1940-1943 | Governor-General's temporary commission as Bimbashi in the SDF |
| 1943-1945 | A.D.C. Yirol, Equatoria |
| 1945-1949 | A.D.C./D.C. Bentiu, Upper Nile Province |
| 1949-1954 | D.C. Merowe, Northern Province |
| 1954-1955 | Deputy Govenor, Upper Nile Province |
| 1955 | Retired from the Sudan Political Service |
1. Official Papers
2. Memoirs
3. Photographic Material
4. Museum Objects
5. Printed Material
Presented by McJannet, 1983-1987, & Mrs D. McJannet, 1992
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.781/11/1-15
1945 Aug 10
Note by Capt. J.M. Stubbs, D.C. Aweil, Equatoria, on the customary laws of Aweil District Dinka, with covering letter from N.M. Mitchell-Innes to F.D. McJannet
SAD.781/12/1-36
1956 Mar 1
Report on
“Agriculture in the Sudan” for Fison's Ltd. (F.D. McJannet joined Fison's Ltd. on retirement from the Sudan in 1955). The report covers the following topics:
SAD.781/12/2
Object of report
SAD.781/12/3-11
Background, including geography and population, climate, political situation, soils, communications, economic situation and present marketing prospects, availability in the Sudan of factors of production
SAD.781/12/11-18
Types of agriculture
SAD.781/12/18
Mechanical crop production
SAD.781/12/19
The Zande scheme
SAD.781/12/19
Livestock and gum
SAD.781/12/19-20
Summary of possible agricultural developments
SAD.781/12/20-24
Future use of fertilizers over next five to ten years
SAD.781/12/25-34
Appendices
SAD.781/12/35
Vegetation map of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
scale: 1.5 cms to 100 miles
Size: 20.5 x 33 cms
SAD.781/12/36
Map of the Sudan showing agriculture, industries, communications and population of principal towns
scale: 1.5 cms to 100 miles
Size: 20.5 x 33 cms
2. Memoirs
SAD.781/13/1-9
[c. 1982]
Memoir of F.D. McJannet's life as A.D.C. Yirol, Equatoria including a detailed description of Yirol station (SAD.781/13/2-3), account of the work of the D.C. (SAD.781/13/3-4,7), tribal disturbances (SAD.781/13/4-6) and description of Shambe
(SAD.781/13/8)
SAD.781/13/10
1982 Apr 5
Letter from F.D. McJannet to A. Kirk-Greene concerning the memoir above and his war-time experiences in Eastern Sudan and Abyssinia
3. Photographic Material
SAD.782/7/1-4
1937
Dealing with locust hoppers after poison had run out, Dueim District
SAD.782/7/5
1938
D.C.'s lorry in village during trek
SAD.782/7/6
1938
Officials' swimming pool at Dueim
SAD.782/7/10
1939
Nile crocodile at Sennar
SAD.782/7/11
1939
A.D.C.'s house at Sennar
SAD.782/7/12
1939-1940
Remains of the Wellcome research station near Sennar
SAD.782/7/13
1939
Fallata band, Sennar
SAD.782/7/14
1939-1940
L. to R.: G.E.R. Sandars, D.C., Mrs. Dagmar Mynors, Mrs. Vera Sandars and ? outside a resthouse near Sennar
SAD.782/7/15-23
1943
Boat construction at Wad Medani under the supervision of C.B. Tracey, Deputy Governor Blue Nile Province
SAD.782/7/24
1943-1946
Verandah area of D.C.'s house, Yirol
SAD.782/7/25-27
D.C.'s house, Yirol, exterior views
SAD.782/7/28-29
Car ferry on Yirol-Rumbek road
SAD.782/7/31-34
Scenes at C.M.S. station at Akot, including interior and exterior views of the church and Dinka women dancing
SAD.782/7/35
D.C.'s house and
markaz at Rumbek
SAD.782/7/36-38
Animal etchings cut into the rough plaster of the government resthouse at Shambe in March 1924 by Raoul Millais (1901-1999) the son of Sir John Millais: elephant, giraffe, buffalo and lion
SAD.782/8/1-3
1946-1948
‘Mango cottage’, A.D.C.'s house at Bentiu
SAD.782/8/4-6
1946-1948
F.D. McJannet trekking by horse under difficulties at the time of the Nile flood
SAD.782/8/7
1946-1949
Rear of D.C.'s house, Bentiu
SAD.782/8/8
1946-1949
Sitting room in D.C.'s house, Bentiu
SAD.782/8/9
1946-1949
Bentiu
suq with government buildings in background
SAD.782/8/10
1946-1949
Nuer porters resting on trek
SAD.782/8/11
1954
Garden of Deputy Governor's house, Malakal
SAD.782/8/12
1954 Sep
F.D. McJannet with ‘Ben’ (dog) in garden of Deputy Governor's house, Malakal
SAD.782/8/13
1954 Sep
View of steamer on the Nile from the Deputy Governor's house
SAD.782/8/14
1954
Postboat at Malakal (fortnightly service from Kosti to Juba)
SAD.782/8/15
1954
Zebra grazing in
suq area, Malakal
SAD.782/8/16
1954
Elephant grazing across the Nile from Malakal
SAD.782/8/17
1938-1940
Trekking by lorry in Northern Province
SAD.782/8/18
1938-1940
Primary school in the Wadi Halfa area
SAD.782/8/19-20
1942-1943
Sudan Artillery Regiment officers' mess at Shendi
SAD.782/8/21
1942-1943
Officers of the Sudan Artillery Regiment. J. Winder, D.C. in foreground
SAD.782/8/22
1943 May
Sudan Artillery Regiment newly acquired 25 pounders on parade at Keren
SAD.782/8/23
1942-1943
S.D.F. officer in conversation at Shendi station
SAD.782/8/24
1942
Ox-driven
saqiyah near Shendi
SAD.782/8/25
1942
D.C.'s
felucca on the Nile at Shendi
SAD.782/8/26-29
1942-1943
Shendi agricultural show: camels and oxen
SAD.782/8/30
1948-1952
Garden of D.C.'s house at Merowe
SAD.782/8/31-32
1949
D.C.'s house at Merowe on the banks of the Nile, originally built by the Egyptian Army
SAD.782/8/33
1948-1953
View across the Nile from the D.C.'s house, Merowe
SAD.782/8/34
1950-1952
Former Egyptian Army mess, then government rest house at Dongola
SAD.782/8/35
1950-1952
Mrs. Diana McJannet leaning against column from nearby Meroitic ruins and erected outside the government rest house at Dongola
SAD.782/8/36-37
1950-1952
H.B. Arber, Governor Northern Province with Shaykh Mahmud of Khandaq at Khandaq (between Dongola and Debbah)
SAD.782/8/38-46
1952
Merowe agricultural show:
SAD.782/8/38
H.B. Arber, Governor, presenting robe of honour
SAD.782/8/42-46
Nuba Company, Camel Corps
4. Museum Objects
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
Molloy, P.: The cry of the fish eagle: the personal experiences of a game warden and his wife in the southern Sudan (1957)
Sylvester, A.: Sudan under Nimeiri (1977)
Tothill, J.D.: Agriculture in the Sudan (London, OUP, 1948)
