Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Redfern, Sir Arthur Shuldham
Dates of creation: 1935-1981
Extent: 2 files
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Redfern, Sir Arthur Shuldham
Language:
English
(1895 - 1985)
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| 1914-1918 | War Service in the Territorial Infantry Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps |
| 1920-1921 | A.D.C. Khartoum North, Khartoum Province |
| 1922-1923 | A.D.C. Geneina, Dar Masalit, Darfur Province |
| 1923-1925 | A.D.C. Wad Medani, Blue Nile Province |
| 1926-1928 | Gezira Commissioner, Blue Nile Province |
| 1928-1929 | Deputy Governor, Blue Nile Province |
| 1929-1932 | Assistant Civil Secretary (Personnel) |
| 1932-1934 | Commissioner, Port Sudan-Suakin Administration |
| 1934-1935 | Governor, Kassala Province |
| 1935-1945 | Seconded to the Canadian Government |
| 1947-1951 | Director of the Commonwealth Division of the British Council |
| 1957-1977 | Deputy Chairman of the Sudan Government British Pensioners Association |
1. Personal Papers
2. Memoirs
3. Articles
Presented by Sir A.S. & Lady Redfern, 1965, & by K.D.D. Henderson, 1987
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.294/18/3
1965 Dec 9
Letter to Richard Hill enclosing “vignettes” by A.S. Redfern and Lady Ruth Redfern, and mentioning Yahia Awad
2. Memoirs
SAD.863/5/1-11
1981
Memoir by A.S. Redfern of his career in the Sudan, divided into two parts:
SAD.863/5/1-8
Memoirs arranged chronologically, concerning recruitment (SAD.863/5/1-2) and postings: in Khartoum North, including a description of Khartoum and of Muslim customs (SAD.863/5/3); in Dar Masalit, including a description of the journey there and of
legal work (SAD.863/5/4-6); in Wad Medani as Gezira Commissioner and as Deputy Governor of Blue Nile Province, with comment on the marriage of Political Officers (SAD.863/5/6-7); as Assistant Civil Secretary during the Depression (SAD.863/5/7); as
Commissioner of the Port Sudan-Suakin Administration and later as the Governor of Kassala (SAD.863/5/7-8); and secondment to the Canadian Government (SAD.863/5/8)
SAD.863/5/9-11
Comment on Indirect Rule, the elimination of the Egyptian element of the administration in 1924, how the Sudan should have been furnished with a federal government prior to independence, and the role of the armed
forces
3. Articles
SAD.294/18/4-15
1935
“The Bandit” : article by A.S. Redfern on Yahia Awad, a bandit of Kassala Province
SAD.294/18/16-22
1940
“Some Sudan Experiences” by Lady Ruth Redfern
