Milligan, Stanley Lyndall
Introduction
Stanley Lyndall Milligan
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
(a) Egyptian Army and the Sudan Defence Force
(b) Anglo-French Boundary Commission
(c) Sudan Survey Department
2. Personal Papers
(a) Papers concerning the career of Milligan
(b) Papers concerning Milligan's hobbies
3. Diary
4. Map
5. Photographic Material
(a) Loose Photographs
(b) Album
6. Printed material
Separated printed material now in Durham University Library
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Milligan, Stanley Lyndall
Dates of creation: 1913-1951
Extent: 2 boxes
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Milligan, Stanley Lyndall
Language: English, Ottoman Turkish

Stanley Lyndall Milligan

(1887 - 1968)

1908-1914 Australian Military Forces
1914-1919 First Australian Division
1919-1924 Egyptian Army
1922-1923 Anglo-French Boundary Commission
1924-1927 Sudan Defence Force
1927-1937 Sudan Survey Department (Director of Surveys)
1937 Retired


Arrangement

1. Official Papers
2. Personal Papers
3. Diary
4. Maps
5. Photographic Material
6. Printed Material

Accession details

Presented by Mrs J. Cordeaux, 1991

Catalogue
1. Official Papers
(a) Egyptian Army and the Sudan Defence Force
SAD.798/5/1-75
1919 Dec 29-1921 Sep 11
Semi-official letters to army colleagues concerning military affairs, such as accounts and pay, supplies and ammunition, the construction and maintenance of buildings, personnel matters and discipline, leave, and personal news, including letter from Milligan to E.W.C. Sandes concerning the proposed change of the company to Mounted Infantry, and the opinions of his officers about this (SAD.798/5/1-2)
SAD.798/6/1-51
1920 Apr 19-1922 Jan 28
Camel Company, Western Arab Corps General Book for temporary use while on detachment from Kuttum, including a log, accounts, and records of disciplinary action, equipment, personnel and sick camels, as well as a record of orders (SAD.798/6/3-5) and a correspondence register (SAD.798/6/9-19, 34-5)
SAD.798/7/1-42
1921 Sep 13-1922 Jan 28; 1950 Dec 14-1951 Jan 13
Orders and letters to Milligan concerning the Nyala Rising and the subsequent patrol of Darfur of 1921, including:
SAD.798/7/3-5
1921 Sep 28
Letters from Knox White to Milligan describing the attack on Nyala on 26 Sep, and orders to form a patrol
SAD.798/7/13
1921 Oct 10
List of the nazirs, `umdahs etc. of tribes with notes on their loyalty
SAD.798/7/39-42
1950 Dec 14-1951 Jan 13
Letters and notes from Godfrey Harding to Milligan concerning the Darfur patrol
SAD.798/9/1-57
1923 Jul 31-1925 Jan 27
Records connected with the 1924 Mutiny
SAD.798/9/1-4
1923 Jul 31
“Egyptian Press Resume: Our Army” issued by the Intelligence Department
SAD.798/9/5
1924 Nov 21-26
Copy of telegrams of condolence sent to Lady Stack
SAD.798/9/6-10
1924 Dec 22
“The Mutiny of the 27th & 28th November, 1924” issued by the Intelligence Department
SAD.798/9/11-33
1924 Dec 29
Sudan Monthly Intelligence Report, no. 364, Nov 1924
SAD.798/9/34-36
1925 Jan 17
Proclamation of the creation of the Sudan Defence Force
SAD.798/9/37-57
1925 Jan 27
Sudan Monthly Intelligence Report, no. 365, Dec 1924
SAD.799/16/6-13
1937 Jan 1-Jul 31
Lists of British officers employed with the Sudan Defence Force
(b) Anglo-French Boundary Commission
SAD.798/8/1-67
1920 Dec 20-1927 Aug 25
Records concerning the Anglo-French Boundary Commission's survey of the Darfur-French Equatorial Africa boundary, including letters from the Director of the Survey Department, H.D. Pearson, and the Assistant Director of Topographical Surveys, A.A.R. Boyce, and instructions on surveying. Also includes:
SAD.798/8/10-12
1921 Jun 20
Structure and plan of action of the Commission, with map of the Darfur-French Equatorial Africa border
(c) Sudan Survey Department
SAD.799/1-799/13
1926-1938
Survey Department annual reports:
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/1/1-27
1926
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/2/1-38
1927
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/3/1-48
1928
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/4/1-60
1929
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/5/1-49
1930
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/6/1-40
1931
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/7/1-39
1932
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/8/1-43
1933
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/9/1-39
1934
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/10/1-40
1935
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/11/1-42
1936
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/12/1-38
1937
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/13/1-41
1938
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.799/14/1-25
1922-1937 Jun 28
Various papers and internal reports of the Survey Department, including:
SAD.799/14/19-24
1937 Jun 28
Brief handing-over note from Milligan to R.C. Hardie
SAD.799/15/1-64
1935 Jul 15
Report on the technical training of Sudanese
SAD.799/16/1-5
1936
Survey Department staff roll
2. Personal Papers
(a) Papers concerning the career of Milligan
SAD.799/17/1
1927
Note on the career of Milligan
SAD.799/17/2
1936
Sudan Government record of service and history sheet
SAD.799/18/1-23
1913 Nov 3-1921 Oct 11
Arabic examination papers and language notes
SAD.799/18/24
[n.d.]
Some Turkish words of command as used in the Egyptian Army
Language: Ottoman Turkish, English
SAD.799/17/3-21
1919 Mar 8-1924 Aug 12
Papers concerning Milligan's service in the Egyptian Army including:
SAD.799/17/4
Memorandum on service of British officers in the Egyptian Army
SAD.799/19/1-39
1919 Mar 6-1925 Jan 20
Miscellaneous papers concerning Milligan's career in the Egyptian Army
SAD.799/19/1-2
1919 Mar 6
“Notes for Camel Company officers”
SAD.799/19/3-12
1919 Jul 30
Astronomical forms for the measurements of time, azimuth and latitude
SAD.799/19/14-17
1920 Mar 8
“Note on game in Northern Darfur District”
SAD.799/19/19-21
1923 Aug 2
Instructions for surveying from Milligan
SAD.799/19/25-33
1925 Jan 20
“Report on the possibility of employing the British personnel of the Sudan Plantation Syndicate as a reserve force”
SAD.799/19/34-8
[n.d.]
Draft of questions to be settled concerning the administration of troops in Khartoum District
SAD.800/1/1-21
1926 Mar 30-Dec 16
Papers concerning Milligan's appointment to the Survey Department
SAD.800/2/1-12
1923 May 9-1937 May 15
Correspondence concerning the decorations awarded to Milligan namely the Order of the Nile Fourth Class (1923), the Order of the Nile Third Class (1936), and the King George VI Coronation Medal (1937)
SAD.800/5/1-25
1924 Feb 11-1937 Jul 28
Letters to Milligan, mainly expressing regret and offering best wishes upon his retirement
SAD.800/2/13-19
1937 Jan 6-Jul 29
Papers concerning Milligan's retirement
(b) Papers concerning Milligan's hobbies
SAD.800/3/1-28
1931-1936 Jul 9
Records of the Khartoum Foot Fox Hounds
SAD.800/3/1-17
Annual reports, 1931-1934
Index terms
Annual reports
SAD.800/3/18-28
Accounts, 1933-1936
Index terms
Accounting
SAD.800/4/1-34
1927 Nov 13-1937 May 23
Papers concerning the Blue Nile Sailing Club, including programmes for B.N.S.C. regattas, correspondence between Milligan and King Alfonso of Spain about the 1934 Vanian Cup race and B.N.S.C. rules
3. Diary
SAD.800/5/26-27
1915 Jul 9-Aug 6
Translation of a diary kept by an unidentified Turkish medical officer in the Turkish infantry during the Gallipoli campaign
Index terms
Diaries
4. Map
SAD.800/5/28 [MP]
1928
Map of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
scale:   1 to 3,000,000
Size: 81 x 103.5 cm
5. Photographic Material
(a) Loose Photographs
SAD.800/4/34
n.d.]
The B.N.S.C. Private Owners Cup [see under 2. Personal Papers, (b), above]
SAD.791/1/1-9
[c.1927-1937]
Photographs of survey work in Halfa and Dongola Provinces:
SAD.791/1/1
Survey team
SAD.791/1/2
Survey team
SAD.791/1/3
Survey camp: ‘one of my tentless treks'
SAD.791/1/4
Survey team: “crossing river at Dongola”
SAD.791/1/5
Survey camp
SAD.791/1/6
Survey team: beacon at Jabal Ali Barsi
SAD.791/1/7
Survey team: en route to Jabal Atiri by camel
SAD.791/1/8
Survey team: khawr and Jabal Magdud
SAD.791/1/10-16
[n.d.]
Assorted views, Northern Sudan:
SAD.791/1/10
Khartoum Church (Karakashian Bros., Khartoum)
SAD.791/1/11
Sennar dam? (or Jabal Aulia)
SAD.791/1/12
Village school, qubbah in background
SAD.791/1/13
British official's house
SAD.791/1/14
British official greeting tribal leader at tribal gathering, probably Kordofan
SAD.791/1/15
Donkeys carrying hay
SAD.791/1/16
Feluccas on the Nile at dusk
SAD.791/1/17
Photograph of Upper Nile tribesmen
SAD.791/1/18
Photograph of boat on the River Baro at Gambeila
SAD.791/1/19
Portrait photograph of P.M. Larken
SAD.791/1/20
Photograph of Port Said
SAD.791/1/21
View from the Aeheleion, Corfu
SAD.791/1/22
Egyptian Army Christmas Card containing aerial photograph of the junction of the Blue and White Niles at Khartoum
SAD.791/1/23
Sudan Defence Force Christmas Card containing photograph of habub approaching Khartoum
(b) Album
SAD.791/2/1-61
[c.1920-1922]
Album of photographs covering Milligan's journey to the Sudan and service with the Camel Company, Western Arab Corps [W.A.C.] in Kordofan and Darfur:
SAD.791/2/1
Milligan(?) on horseback
SAD.791/2/2-4
On the Nile: the steamer Lotus and her wake
SAD.791/2/5-6
Abu Simbel
SAD.791/2/7-8
Nile boating scenes
SAD.791/2/9
Mosque at En Nahud, Kordofan
SAD.791/2/10
On the Sudan railway
SAD.791/2/11
Fort gate, El Obeid
SAD.791/2/12
Bull transport
SAD.791/2/13
Afandi's wife travelling in `utfa
SAD.791/2/14
Fallata en route to Mecca
SAD.791/2/15
Kineen Arabs
SAD.791/2/16
Escort and servants
SAD.791/2/17
Filling fantasses
SAD.791/2/18-20
Loading and watering camels
SAD.791/2/21
Drawing water on trek from tebeldi tree
SAD.791/2/22
Drawing water on trek from well
SAD.791/2/23
`Umdah of Lugud
SAD.791/2/24
Shaykh `Abd al-Rahman
SAD.791/2/25
Adam Tameem, `Umdah of Mellit
SAD.791/2/26
Sultan Endoka of Dar Masalit
SAD.791/2/27
Native officials, Kuttum
SAD.791/2/28
Kuttum: stables and saddle rooms
SAD.791/2/29
Kuttum: musketry
SAD.791/2/30
Kuttum: pay day
SAD.791/2/31
Kuttum: commandant's house
SAD.791/2/32
Kuttum: the guardroom
SAD.791/2/33
Kuttum: the orderly room
SAD.791/2/34
Mellit: beating out the grain
SAD.791/2/35
Mellit: shaduf
SAD.791/2/36
B.O.'s house, El Fasher
SAD.791/2/37
A resthouse on the Fasher-Kebkabiya road
SAD.791/2/38
Servants: `Abd al-Fugara (suffragi)
SAD.791/2/39
Servants: Hasan Muhammed (cook)
SAD.791/2/40
Servants: Isa Abu Sara (groom) and wife
SAD.791/2/41
Camel Company W.A.C.: ‘on the move'
SAD.791/2/42
Camel Company W.A.C.: A shawish (sergeant)
SAD.791/2/43
Camel Company W.A.C.: on parade
SAD.791/2/44
`Abd al-Fugara and Milligan's pony
SAD.791/2/45
Bridget (kitten)
SAD.791/2/46
New-born puppy
SAD.791/2/47
Mother and daughter, Darfur
SAD.791/2/48
‘Ladies hairdresser’
SAD.791/2/49
‘The girls that grind my flour’
SAD.791/2/50
Young mother and baby
SAD.791/2/51
A family group
SAD.791/2/52
Women going to the well
SAD.791/2/53
The Shaykh's daughters
SAD.791/2/54
Family seated by the wayside
SAD.791/2/55
Young woman (‘A bashful beauty')
SAD.791/2/56
A wayside suq
SAD.791/2/57
Evans
SAD.791/2/58
Hardy
SAD.791/2/59
Bourdillon
SAD.791/2/60
Wolfe-Murray
SAD.791/2/61
Critchley-Salmonson
6. 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


Convention between the United Kingdom and France for the delimitation of their respective possessions to the west of the Niger, and of their respective possessions and spheres of influence to the east of that river. Signed at Paris, June 14, 1898. Together with a declaration completing the same signed at London, March 21, 1899. [Ratifications exchanged at Paris, June 13, 1899.] (Treaty Series No.15 (1899) c.9334 H.M.S.O.)
Supplementary convention between the United Kingdom and France supplementary to the declaration of March 21, 1899 and the convention of June 14, 1898 respecting borders west and east of the Niger [with map]. Signed at Paris September 8, 1919. (Treaty Series No.6 (1921) cmd.1239 H.M.S.O.)