Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Wedd, Richard
Dates of creation: 1906-1924
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Wedd, Richard
Language: English
(1879 - 1958)
| | |
| 1910 | First appointment to Sudan service |
| 1914-1919 | Deputy Assistant Director / Assistant Director of Lands, Sub-Department of Lands, Legal Department |
| 1920-? | Province Judge, White Nile Province |
| 1923-1928 | Advocate General, Legal Department, Khartoum |
1. Personal Papers
2. Photographic Material
3. Newspaper Cuttings
4. Museum Objects
Presented by R.J. Michael Wedd, 1964
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.475/2/2-14
1919 Jun 27-Jul 3
Personal letter from R. Wedd to his wife with a detailed account of a trip to the new dam at Makwar, travelling by train via Barakat and staying with Prowde who was in charge of building work at the dam. He describes the "luxurious" accommodation
provided for visitors, a visit to the new cement factory, the ice factory, flour mill and various workshops, as well as the foundations for the dam. Other activities included talks with Prowde over the site for the new town, a visit to Jabal Sagadi
where limestone was quarried and the settlement of Egyptian convicts who were working on the dam. The second half of the letter (from SAD.475/2/10v) covers the journey back to Khartoum by train, accompanied for part of the way by two grandsons of
the Mahdi who were going to Khartoum to see off Sayyid `Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi to England, and celebrations for the signing of the peace. Attached is a note that the letter was found amongst Geoffrey Barter's papers
SAD.475/2/1
[1924]
Manuscript note by R. Wedd recording in point form the events of 27-29 November 1924 when troops of the XIth Sudanese Battalion mutinied in Khartoum
SAD.475/2/17
1963 May 13
Letter from F.C. Mansell from the Department of Technical Co-operation to Mrs Wedd concerning her late husband's pension
SAD.475/2/18
[ca. 1960s]
Biographical note on R. Wedd's service in the Sudan, written by his wife
SAD.475/1/1-2
1915-1922
Passport issued to R. Wedd in 1915 and renewed 1922. Contains two portrait photographs.
SAD.475/1/3
1922
Passport issued to R. Wedd, containing portrait photograph
SAD.475/1/4
1915-1919
Passport issued to Wedd's wife, L. M. Wedd, containing her portrait photograph
2. Photographic Material
SAD.474/10/1
1924
The founding leaders of the White Flag League posing in front of their banner showing the map of the 'Nile Valley'. Right to left: Ḥasan Sharīf, ‘Alī ‘Abd al-Laṭīf (President) (1896-1948), Ṣāliḥ ‘Abd al-Qādir, and ‘Ubayd Ḥājj al-Amīn
(Vice-President) (d.1932). Probably photographed in the Khartoum studio of Armenian photographer A. Kazandjian
SAD.A61/1-96
1910-1927
Album of photographs taken by R. Wedd during his service in the Sudan
SAD.A61/1-2
1910-1927
Horse-drawn carriages travelling along a street, possibly Cairo
SAD.A61/3
1910-1927
Street scene, possibly Cairo
SAD.A61/4
1910-1927
Building under construction, with a mosque in the background, possibly Cairo
SAD.A61/5
1910-1927
Distant view of houses and other buildings, possibly Cairo
SAD.A61/6
1910-1927
Arab man on camelback, possibly Cairo
SAD.A61/7
1910-1927
Arab man wearing a long robe, possibly Cairo
SAD.A61/8-9
1910-1927
Crowd of people on a jetty by the side of a ship, possibly Port Said
SAD.A61/10
1910-1927
View of the Nile, possibly at Aswan, with the Cataract Hotel in the distance
SAD.A61/11
1910-1927
View of the Aswan dam
SAD.A61/12
1910-1927
Desert railway station, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/13-16
1910-1927
Temples of Philae
SAD.A61/17
1910-1927
Rocky incline on a bank of the Nile, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/18
1910-1927
Bank of the Nile, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/19
1910-1927
Barge alongside a steamer on the Nile, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/20
1910-1927
Village on a bank of the Nile, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/21
1910-1927
Traders standing on a bank of the Nile displaying goods to passengers on board a steamer, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/22
1910-1927
View of a
saqiyah on a bank of the Nile, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/23-24
1910-1927
Felucca moored on a bank of the Nile, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/25
1910-1927
Saqiyah on a bank of the Nile, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/26
1910-1927
Felucca moored on a bank of the Nile, possibly Egypt
SAD.A61/27
1910-1927
Camels resting next to crates and sacks unloaded from
feluccas moored on the Nile, possibly Khartoum
SAD.A61/28
1910-1927
Unidentified man walking along a street, possibly Khartoum
SAD.A61/29
1910-1927
Building known as the “Yellow Peril”, one of two government-owned blocks of bachelor quarters in Khartoum
SAD.A61/30-32,34-35
1910-1927
Views of Khartoum
SAD.A61/33
1910-1927
View of Khartoum, with the Blue Nile bridge in the distance
SAD.A61/36
1910-1927
Unidentified man playing tennis, probably Khartoum
SAD.A61/37
1910-1927
View of the Civil and Financial Secretariat building, Khartoum
SAD.A61/38
1910-1927
Saqiyah on a tree-lined avenue along a bank of the Blue Nile at Khartoum
SAD.A61/39
1910-1927
Distant view of Khartoum mosque, with two
qubbahs in the old cemetery in the foreground
SAD.A61/40
1910-1927
Distant view of mud-brick buildings, probably Omdurman
SAD.A61/41
1910-1927
Household servant standing on a verandah, with a large two-storey building in the background, probably Khartoum
SAD.A61/42
1910-1927
Household servant standing in a gardem probably Khartoum
SAD.A61/43
1910-1927
Passengers standing on a bank of the Nile, possibly waiting to board the Khartoum - Omdurman ferry
SAD.A61/44
1910-1927
Group of people standing in front of a mud-brick building, possibly Omdurman
SAD.A61/45
1910-1927
Bulls tethered on a bank of the Nile, with
feluccas moored in the background, possibly Omdurman
SAD.A61/46
1910-1927
Children standing in front of piles of
dhurah, possibly Omdurman
SAD.A61/47-49
1910-1927
Suq, possibly Omdurman
SAD.A61/50
1910-1927
Street of shops at a
suq, possibly Omdurman
SAD.A61/51
1910-1927
Suq, possibly Omdurman
SAD.A61/52
1910-1927
View of mud-brick buildings, possibly Omdurman
SAD.A61/53
1910-1927
Horse-drawn cart, possibly Khartoum
SAD.A61/54
1910-1927
Steam tram, possibly Omdurman
SAD.A61/55
1910-1927
Passengers at side of railway train, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/56
1910-1927
Unidentified bungalow, possibly government accommodation, Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/57
1910-1927
Launch moored on the Nile, with donkeys grazing in the foreground, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/58
1910-1927
Cattle grazing on a road, with crops growing in the background, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/59
1910-1927
Plant, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/60
1910-1927
Steam traction engine, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/61
1910-1927
Unidentified house, possibly government accommodation, Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/62
1910-1927
Street scene, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/63
1910-1927
Mudiriyah, Wad Medani
SAD.A61/64
1910-1927
Tukls, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/65-66
1910-1927
Views of trees possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/67
1910-1927
Women dressed in dark coloured
tobes walking at side of road, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/68
1910-1927
Sudanese men standing in desert landscape
SAD.A61/69,71,73
1910-1927
Views of unidentified river
SAD.A61/70
1910-1927
View of railway track, with hills in the distance
SAD.A61/72
1910-1927
View of large hill
SAD.A61/75
1910-1927
Distant view of unidentified town
SAD.A61/76
1910-1927
Two goats, with large building in background, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/77
1910-1927
Distant view of
tukls in a village, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.A61/78
1910-1927
Unidentified river bed
SAD.A61/79
1910-1927
Unidentified river bank
SAD.A61/80
1910-1927
Feluccas and
quyasahs moored on the Nile
SAD.A61/82
1910-1927
Decorations at a gathering
SAD.A61/83
1910-1927
Feluccas or
quyasahs moored on the Nile
SAD.A61/84
1910-1927
Camels grazing under a tree
SAD.A61/85-92
1910-1927
Unidentified views in montainous region, possibly Kassala Province
SAD.A61/93
1910-1927
Unidentified British official standing on a verandah
SAD.A61/94
1910-1927
Two unidentified men and a woman sitting on the deck of a ship, possibly during the journey home on leave
SAD.A61/95
1910-1927
View of river from the deck of a ship
SAD.A61/96
1910-1927
Unidentified man wearing a white suit and a pith helmet
3. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.475/2/16
1924 Dec 19
Cutting from the
Daily Telegraph on the mutiny at Khartoum
4. Museum Objects
SAD.475/3
1924
Flag of the White Flag League, seized during the first Khartoum demonstration on 23 June 1924. The flag is made from a pillowcase of the Mill Hill Fathers and the material is stamped ‘B Nathan and Co Manchester’. This refers to the company of
Bernhard Nathan, a German Jewish cloth merchant who settled in Bradford, Yorkshire in the 1860s and was still active in public life in 1914. By depicting the course of the Nile, the maker of the flag was signalling a core belief of the White Flag
League in the ‘Unity of the Nile Valley’. Cotton with other materials
Size: 84 x 114 cm
Digitised material for SAD.475/3 - Flag of the White Flag League - 1924 