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The Forgotten Front: Experiences of Essex Men Fighting in East Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Allyson Lewis
Allyson Lewis*
Affiliation:
Essex Record Office, Chelmsford
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Extract

Essex Record Office (ERO) holds many collections containing stories of men and women who served during the First World War. The vast majority refer to men who were posted to the Western Front. However, a recently-deposited family collection included a diary and photographs, which revealed the experiences in an overlooked theatre of war of a motor cyclist with 26th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps serving in British East Africa. This article is a case study based on the type of papers which can be found in local Record Offices.

The diary was written by Harry Joseph Edward Ripper who was born on 18 September 1897, the second son of Harry Tucker Ripper and Edith Sarah Ripper.

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Research Article
Information
African Research and Documentation , Volume 128: Papers from Scolma's 2015 Conference: “There came a Darkness”: Africa, Africans and World War I, Friday, 17 July 2015, The British Library Conference Centre , 2015 , pp. 33 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © International African Institute 2015

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1 A14025 Records of the Ripper family of Castle and Sible Hedingham.

2 Kelly's Directory of Essex, 1914