Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Summerfield, Robert Miles
Dates of creation: 1912-1938
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Summerfield, Robert Miles
Language:
English
(1888 - 1978)
| | |
| 1911 | Seconded from the Royal Engineers |
| 1911-1938 | Posts and Telegraphs, Sudan Government |
| 1914 | Zeraf Valley patrol |
| 1914-1915 | Special duty on the construction of the communications of the Suez Canal zone |
| 1916 | Darfur campaign |
| 1917 | Lau Nuer patrol |
| 1918-1927 | Superintendent of Telephones, Khartoum |
| 1927 | Assistant Telephone Engineer, Khartoum |
| 1928-1932 | Telephone Engineer, Khartoum |
| 1933-1938 | Superintending Engineer, Khartoum |
| 1938 | Retired |
1. Official Papers
2. Personal Papers
3. Newspaper Cuttings
4. Photographic Material
5. Printed Material
Presented by Mr R. E. Summerfield, 1996
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.401/5/1
[c. 1938]
Record of R.M. Summerfield's Sudan service, listing places and inclusive dates
2. Personal Papers
SAD.401/5/2-4
1937
Fourth class Order of the Nile awarded to R.M. Summerfield with licence to wear the decoration from King George VI
3. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.401/5/5-7
n.d. and 1938
Cuttings from
The Sphinx and other newspapers recording R.M. Summerfield's travel home on leave and retirement after 27 years' service
4. Photographic Material
SAD.793/1/1-46
1912 - 1913
Album of photographs taken by R.M. Summerfield, northern and southern Sudan:
SAD.793/1/1
R.M. Summerfield (?) on camel
SAD.793/1/2
Group of Arab boys with Shaykh Zawayd
SAD.793/1/4,12
View of Mongalla from the river
SAD.793/1/6
Unidentified riverside village
SAD.793/1/8
R.M. Summerfield (?) on deck of barge
SAD.793/1/9
Small monument behind railings, on edge of town
SAD.793/1/10
Fishing party, possibly Dinka
SAD.793/1/13
Group of men, possibly porters, with donkeys
SAD.793/1/14
Jabal el Hilla post office
SAD.793/1/16
Men and donkeys in front of
tukl
SAD.793/1/17
British members of Posts and Telegraphs crew
SAD.793/1/18
Unidentified brick building
SAD.793/1/19
Dinka men in dugout canoe hunting for hippo
SAD.793/1/20
All Saints Cathedral under construction
SAD.793/1/22
British crew members on deck of ship
SAD.793/1/23
Group of British men on board ship
SAD.793/1/25
Ships in Port Sudan harbour
SAD.793/1/27
Royal Engineers at Khartoum station, May 1913
SAD.793/1/28
Four Shilluk men with spears
SAD.793/1/29
Telegraph party with camels, Blue Nile Province 1912, R.M. Summerfield standing centre
SAD.793/1/30
Baker leaving the Sudan by train from Khartoum station
SAD.793/1/32
Camels transporting telegraph poles at Roseires, 1912
SAD.793/1/33
R.M. Summerfield in sailing boat
SAD.793/1/34
Bob Turner taking the roll call, probably Sudanese telegraph crew
SAD.793/1/35
Family on the move, travelling by oxen, possibly Baqqarah
SAD.793/1/38
British man standing in doorway of railway car
SAD.793/1/39
Fadl al-Mula and members of telegraph crew
SAD.793/1/41-42
Views of Roseires with telegraph pole in centre
SAD.793/1/43
British officer in uniform
SAD.793/1/44
Memorial cross to Corporal Ernest Westaway, Royal Engineers (died 1907), at Jebelein
SAD.793/1/45
R. Fraser on verandah of house at Tawfikia, 1914
SAD.793/1/46
Memorial cross to G.H. Lester, Royal Engineers (1887-1908), at Kongor
SAD.793/2/1-24
1912 - 1915
Album of photographs taken by R.M. Summerfield, mostly in southern Sudan:
SAD.793/2/1
Hartebeest, shot Bahr el Ghazal, May 1915
SAD.793/2/5
Members of contruction party with warthog, shot Bahr el Ghazal, May 1915
SAD.793/2/6
Rest house on the Tonj-Rumbek road
SAD.793/2/7
O'Brien and Rees on verandah of brick building
SAD.793/2/8
C. Manton with shot tiang
SAD.793/2/9
Jabal el Hilla post office
SAD.793/2/10
Telegraph construction party in front of tebeldi tree
SAD.793/2/11
British officer with white eared cob, shot Bahr el Ghazal Apr 1915
SAD.793/2/12
Lau river, Bahr el Ghazal
SAD.793/2/13
Two bearers with small lion, shot at Khor Ragaba near Tonga, 1915
SAD.793/2/14
Loading camels, Blue Nile, Oct 1912
SAD.793/2/15
Aerial view of bi-plane over desert
SAD.793/2/16
Telephone station, Kilo 32, Bahr el Zeraf, 1914
SAD.793/2/17
Wedding party, possibly Blue Nile
SAD.793/2/18
Southern women drawing water from well
SAD.793/2/19
J. Boscott and party with railway trolley
SAD.793/2/20
Rest house at Melut, Upper White Nile, 1913
SAD.793/2/24
Paddle steamer at Khartoum (loose photo)
SAD.793/3/1-24
1913 - 1915
Album of photographs taken by R.M. Summerfield, chiefly in southern Sudan:
SAD.793/3/1
British officer sitting on elephant (tusks 50 rotls), shot May 1915
SAD.793/3/2
Bearers with small roan antelope, shot White Nile 1913
SAD.793/3/4
Roan antelope shot by C.E. Brooks
SAD.793/3/5
Buffalo, shot Upper White Nile, May 1913
SAD.793/3/6
Lioness and cub, shot Upper White Nile, May 1913
SAD.793/3/7
British officer with antelope
SAD.793/3/8
Dead hippopotamus on river bank
SAD.793/3/9
Herd of waterbuck, River Zeraf 1915 (taken by C. Manton)
SAD.793/3/11
Herd of tiang, River Zeraf, Jan 1915 (taken by C. Manton)
SAD.793/3/12
Telegraph pole damaged by birds
SAD.793/3/13
C.E. Brooks with hartebeest, shot Bahr el Ghazal, Apr 1915
SAD.793/3/14
British officer with monkey
SAD.793/3/15
C.E. Brooks with dead roan antelope
SAD.793/3/17
Building damaged by a storm at Shambe, May 1915
SAD.793/3/19
Linemen on patrol, Blue Nile
SAD.793/3/21
Two Sudanese men in lush vegetation
SAD.793/3/23
J. Boscott with dead lion
SAD.793/5/1
[pre 1920]
Photograph of the HQ staff, Posts and Telegraphs, Khartoum. Seated left to right: R.M. Summerfield, Abellal Efendi, Mr. Dennett, Col. Moir (Director Posts and Telegraphs), Capt. Fawcett, O'Brien and Sgt Hawkes
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
The Sudan Daily Herald no. 2540, 26 Mar 1938, including an article on R.M. Summerfield's retirement
