1934 Oct - 1946 Jun
Typescript copy of extracts from the diary of F.B. Hunt [F.B.H.] including descriptions of the social life in the Gezira cotton area; duties as 3rd Inspector; release from civilian life in Oct 1939 to replace regular army officers of the Sudan Defence Force, attached to the Eastern Arab Corps at Gedaref during periods of leave; atachment to the Equatorial Corps in May 1940; return to the Sudan Plantations Syndicate after the war; resignation in Jun 1946

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Explanatory and additional notes accompanying the diary, on Khartoum, the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, interesting characters encountered by F.B.H., the wireless set, sticks used by the Sudanese, walks in the Kapoeta area and the Sudan Defence Force

1939 - 1941
Copy extracts from the same diary as in SAD 693/1/1-145 above, including a description of a meeting with the Italians at Gallabat, Abyssinia, 11-16 Dec 1939, and biographical information on H. de V. Leigh and C.R. Barnett, both employees of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate

[ca. 1940]
Copy of addendum to the above diary concerning Italian prisoners at Atbara

Diesel ploughing engine used on cotton-growing land in the Gezira

Tenant farmer using ridging machinery on cotton-growing land in the Gezira

Sowing cotton in the Gezira

Camel transporting cotton to the railway station, en route to the ginning factory, Gezira

Sudan Plantations Syndicate cotton inspector standing next to a motor car outside the cultivated area, Gezira

Sudan Plantations Syndicate cotton inspector's house, Gezira

Sudan Plantations Syndicate employees' living quarters, Gezira

Weir on a minor irrigation canal in the Gezira

Camel policeman, Gezira

Group of men loading a refrigerator onto the back of a motor car outside a Sudan Plantations Syndicate cotton inspector's house, Gezira

Group of Ja'aliyin boys

Group of men making bricks at Debeiba

Group of men, probably Sudan Plantations Syndicate cotton farmers, sitting outside a house at Halalia

Wad Medani races

Picnic by the Blue Nile

Polo match

1946
Man standing next to a small sail boat on a bank of the Blue Nile

W. Robertson-Aikman sitting at the wheel of a motor car outside the Sudan Plantations Syndicate offices, mid 1930s

F.B.H.

Brigadier F. O. Cave, C. O., Equatorial Corps, possibly Blue Nile Province

F.B.H.'s model A Ford motor car, possibly Blue Nile Province

F.B.H.'s pet dogs sitting in the back of a Morris 8 motor car, possibly Blue Nile Province

1939
Soldiers of the Eastern Arab Corps, Sudan Defence Force, loading up motor trucks with baggage and equipment, possibly Kassala Province

1939
Egyptian and British flags flying on top of the guard room at Karakol, possibly Kassala Province

1939
Sudan Defence Force officers loading up a motor truck before setting out for Gallabat

Military fort at Gallabat

Sudanese officer, Sudan Defence Force

1943 Dec
F.B.H. in Sudan Defence Force uniform at Amariya, Egypt

1943 Dec
Sudan Defence Force soldiers preparing Christmas dinner at Amaruya, Egypt

1939 Dec 13
H. N. W. Keller, Hayes [J. M. D. Hayes or P. L. Hayes] and F. B. Hunt, three Sudan Plantations Syndicate inspectors undergoing military training with the Eastern Arab Corps at Metemma, with a group of Italian officers, including Major Siroldi, during a visit to the Italian military post for lunch

1939 Dec
H. N. W. Keller, Hayes and F. B. Hunt, three Sudan Plantations Syndicate inspectors undergoing military training with the Eastern Arab Corpsat Metemma, standing with a group of Italian officers, inspecting Major Siroldi's caged pet lion, during a visit to the Italian military post for lunch

1943 Dec
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, en route from Wadi Halfa to Shellal

1943 Dec
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, exercising in deep desert sand whilst en route between Wadi Halfa and Shellal

1943 Dec
N.C.O.s of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, on an outing with the Company Commander, F. B. Hunt, at Alexandria

[ca. 1943]
Drummers and buglers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, probably in Egypt

1943
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, in plain clothes, probably Egypt

[ca. 1943-1944]
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, performing a dance or theatrical play in costume, possibly Egypt

[ca. 1944]
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, waiting to entrain, possibly Egypt

Porters carrying baggage and equipment across a swamp during a trek in the southern Sudan

[ca. 1943]
Fatigue party of soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, possibly Egypt

1939
Defences constructed by Eastern Arab Corps, Sudan Defence Force, possibly Gallabat

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“The story of the eleventh.” The history of the 11th Battalion of the Sudan Defence Force of which F.B.H. was a company commander