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Description: | Some pages from the ms diary (9pp) of a Lieutenant Colonel in the Nigerian Regiment, stationed in Lokoja, at the meeting of the Rivers Niger and Benue in central Nigeria, 30 July - 27 August 1914, describing his journey with one Company along the River Benue by boat and canoe to Yola, on the Cameroons border. The Company crossed the border on 22 August, and over the next few days it was involved in several skirmishes with German patrols; Maclear was apparently killed on 27 August, on which day he hastily recorded that heavy maxim fire had been heard nearby. Enclosed in the diary is a ts letter (1p), 16 November 1914, from the Colonial Office, returning the diary to Mrs Maclear.
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Catalogue date 1972-10-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Maclear, P | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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