| Churchill/AMEL 6 contains: |
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| 1 |
General family and personal |
| 2 |
Mountaineering |
| 3 |
Florence Amery |
| 4 |
Harold and Geoffrey Amery |
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The Papers of Leopold Amery
| Title |
Harold and Geoffrey Amery |
| Reference |
AMEL 6/4 |
| Covering Dates |
1880–1947 |
| Extent and Medium |
11 archive boxes |
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| Content and context |
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Geoffrey Amery (known as "Jugs") was born in 1875, two years after LSA. He served in the Malay States Civil Service, at Perak, but retired shortly before the outbreak of the First World War due to ill health. He spent some time in Central Europe on his return from Malaya and was interned when war broke out at Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. He died of peritonitis brought on by typhoid on 20 July 1918.
Harold Amery was the youngest Amery brother, born in 1877. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, then joined the 1st Battalion Royal Highlanders (the Black Watch) in 1897. He served in India for four years, then was seconded to the Egyptian Army in 1901, serving mainly as Assistant Director of Intelligence and Sudan Agent until 1911. During this time he translated a work from Hindustani into Arabic, published a lexicon of colloquial Arabic of the Sudan and also "Aids to Arabic" in 1911. He was admitted to Staff Officer training at Camberley in 1912, and commanded a company in 1914 on the retreat from Mons [France]. He was wounded in September 1914, returned to the front on 1 November at Ypres [Belgium] and was wounded again on the 2nd November leading a counter-attack, for which he was mentioned in dispatches. He died on 24 November 1915, following a long illness caused by the wounds suffered at Ypres.
Correspondence, photographs, diaries and papers of LSA's younger brothers, including Harold Amery's intelligence papers from the Sudan, and a large number of photographs from the Sudan and Malaya [later Malaysia].
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| Index Terms |
| Amery, Geoffrey Julian (1875-1918) brother of Leopold Amery |
| Amery, Harold Francis (1877-1915) brother of Leopold Amery |
| Churchill/AMEL 6/4 contains: |
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Harold Amery: family correspondence. Letters from Harold Amery to his mother Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner] and LSA, on subjects including Harold Amery's schooldays, his military training at Camberley, Surrey and his service in India and as an intelligence officer in the Sudan.
5 files. |
c 1887-Feb 1913 |
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2
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Harold Amery: photo album. Photographs and prints of yachting scenes.
1 file; Fragile.. |
Jun 1894 |
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3
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Harold Amery: India log. Account of Amery's travels through India during his summer leave.
1 file; Fragile.. |
Jul 1898-Oct 1898 |
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4
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Harold Amery: correspondence while in Egypt and the Sudan. Letters from Amery's military friends and colleagues, with bills and receipts. Correspondents include: LSA on subjects including the death of their mother, Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner] (4); Ronald Graham [British Agent and Consul-General, Egypt] on a proposed Italian Commercial Agent in being based in Khartoum; 1st Lord Cromer [British Agent and Consul-General, Egypt, earlier Evelyn Baring] on French attempts to establish relations with Wadai [Ouaddai]; Sir Edward Grey; Catherine, Lady Wingate.
1 file. |
Sep 1896-Oct 1911 |
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5
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Harold Amery: photographs. Photographs of: Perak, Malaya [later Malaysia], including work at a hydraulic tin mine at Chenderiang and various rural and social scenes; local people and scenes in Khartoum [Sudan], particularly local women, horses, camel racing, prison gangs, native troops and local sheikhs; popular views of Italian cities and works of art; scenes from Oxford.
5 files. |
Jan 1898-Feb 1909 |
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6
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Harold Amery: letters when in the Sudan. Letters to Amery from correspondents including: Lord Errington [later 2nd Lord Cromer], British Agency, Cairo [Egypt] (2); David Margoliouth [Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford]; Schomberg Eden; Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Edward Cecil [Agent-General Sudan Government and Director of Intelligence, Cairo] on subjects including their poor supervision of the Sinai Peninsula, making use of the British and Colonial Press Agency and repatriating dervish prisoners (2); Roger Owen [Director of Intelligence Department, Egyptian War Office and Sudan Agent, Cairo] on subjects including reorganising the Intelligence Office (3); James Currie [Principal of the Gordon College, Khartoum, and Director of Education in the Sudan]; LSA, suggesting that Amery might act as the Times correspondent in Somaliland [later Somalia] or go and see General 1st Lord Kitchener [Commander-in-Chief, India] while on leave; Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, British Agency, Cairo, on Belgian activity in the area, particularly an expedition led by a Captain Lemaire. Also includes; receipts; notes on the Amharic and Ethiopic alphabets; intelligence reports by Alfred Bethell on the road from Wau to Tambura, the Tambura area, Sultan Tambura and other local chiefs; monthly report on the Wau area photographs and a map.
1 file. |
Oct 1900-Dec 1904 |
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7
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Harold Amery: letters when in the Sudan. Letters to Amery from correspondents including: LSA on the superiority of the British Army in the intelligence field, the use of photographs in field survey work, the Times History of the South African War, keeping languages for practical use, intelligence organisation, the use of native explorers, climbing Mont aux Sources [Basutoland, later Lesotho], suggesting that Amery visit India while on leave and discussing his future (10); Percy Machell [Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Egypt] on sending troops [?] to deal with a locust swarm; [George] Julian Ryan; Francis Rhodes on praise for LSA in South Africa and the unpopularity of 1st Lord Curzon as Viceroy; Lewis Nicol (2); Horace Rumbold [1st Secretary, British Agency, Cairo] (3); Roger Owen [Director of Intelligence Department, Egyptian War Office and Sudan Agent, Cairo] (2); Major-General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate, Governor-General of Sudan on a proclamation on tobacco and his convalescence (2); Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, British Agency, Cairo; Katherine, Lady Cromer; 1st Lord Cromer [British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, earlier Evelyn Baring]; AFA; Catherine, Lady Wingate; Adrian Grant-Duff. Also includes: texts in Arabic; photographs; map of the area surrounding Khartoum and the White Nile; report on control of the Nuer tribes; some letters from Amery to LSA and Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner].
2 files. |
May 1897-Jan 1912 |
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8
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Harold Amery: diary.
1 file. |
1902 |
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9
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Harold Amery: diary of trip to eastern Sudan.
1 file. |
Feb 1903-Jun 1903 |
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10
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Harold Amery: diary notes on his trip to Khartoum. Also includes correspondence on Amery's career, including a telegram from his commander on Amery's departure from the Sudan and letters on LSA's suggestion that he be attached to the Turkish Army as an intelligence officer.
1 file. |
Apr 1906-Feb 1911 |
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11
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Harold Amery: college exercise books on military subjects. Notes on strategy, mainly as used in the Napoleonic Wars.
1 file. |
c 1912 |
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12
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Harold Amery: college exercise books on military subjects. Notes on the wars of 1870-1.
1 file. |
Nov 1912-Mar 1913 |
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13
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Harold Amery: college exercise books on military subjects. Notes on the American Civil War.
1 file. |
May 1912-Feb 1913 |
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14
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Harold Amery: college exercise books on military subjects. Notes on the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5.
1 file. |
Mar 1913-Jun 1913 |
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15
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Harold Amery: business papers and letters. Receipts, bills etc., with some letters to Amery from friends and colleagues.
2 files. |
Dec 1911-Dec 1914 |
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16
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Harold Amery: papers. Includes: letters from Amery to LSA, 1914, on training with his company at Aldershot [Hampshire], his finances, training with the Royal Flying Corps, being sent to France and being wounded; letters to Amery from friends, 1914-15, particularly on his being wounded, with correspondents including LSA (2) and General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate; material on Amery's death, including obituaries, order of service for his memorial service, account of his death by LSA and letters of sympathy from correspondents including Susan Buchan [later Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir], Geoffrey Robinson [later Geoffrey Dawson], Charles Boyd and Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham]; decorations, interpreter's certificates and army papers.
3 files. |
Feb 1897-Nov 1945 |
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17
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Geoffrey Amery: letters to family. Letters from Geoffrey Amery, mainly to his mother Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner] and also to his brothers LSA and Harold Amery, from school, university and from Malaya [later Malaysia]. Also includes Geoffrey Amery's birth certificate.
2 files. |
May 1880-Nov 1906 |
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18
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Geoffrey Amery: letters to family. Letters from Geoffrey Amery to his mother Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner], from school, university and from Malaya [later Malaysia].
2 files. |
May 1884-Jun 1907 |
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Geoffrey Amery: letters to family. Letters from Geoffrey Amery to his mother Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner] and to LSA, from school, university and from Malaya [later Malaysia], with some letters to Amery from LSA.
4 files. |
Sep 1890-Feb 1912 |
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20
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Geoffrey Amery: family correspondence, photos and reports. Includes: letters from Harold Amery to Geoffrey on subjects including climbing with LSA, life in Khartoum [Sudan] and the death of their mother, Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner]; correspondence between Geoffrey and his mother on subjects including his life in Malaya [later Malaysia]; photographs from Malaya; letters from LSA to Harold Amery on subjects including the poor performance of British Army in South Africa and the need for reform, their mother's early life, losing the 1908 General Election, Harold's career, a visit to Hudson Bay, Canada, a by-election in East Wolverhampton [Staffordshire], 1910, LSA's engagement and the outbreak of war; articles by Geoffrey on banks and the rural credit societies; letters from LSA to Geoffrey on subjects including Geoffrey Amery's arrival in Malaya and his future career, the Times History of the South African War, their mother's death, LSA's expedition to Hudson Bay, his entry into Parliament, the death of Harold Amery and trying to transfer Geoffrey from Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany]; letters from AFA to Geoffrey.
2 files. |
Jul 1892-Nov 1917 |
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21
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Geoffrey Amery's German atlas.
1 file. |
1897 |
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22
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Geoffrey Amery: letters from Lilian Quiller Couch.
1 file. |
Feb 1900-Feb 1909 |
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23
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Geoffrey Amery: letters from Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp. Includes: letters from Amery to AFA while interned in Germany; correspondence between LSA and the Prisoners of War Department on a possible exchange of prisoners; letters of sympathy and official details on Amery's death.
2 files. |
Dec 1913-Jul 1924 |
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Miscellaneous letters and papers of Harold and Geoffrey Amery. Includes: letters from colleagues in the Sudan Government and the Black Watch to Harold Amery, including a letter from Major-General Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate [Sirdar Egyptian Army and Governor-General of Sudan] on his speech at an army prize-giving ceremony; notes on Harold Amery's career; army papers, including mobilisation timetables for the Black Watch; sketch map of the Battle of Omdurman; articles on the industrial renaissance of Bosnia (in German).
1 file. |
Apr 1897-Feb 1947 |
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25
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Miscellaneous letters of Harold and Geoffrey Amery. Letters from Harold and Geoffrey Amery to LSA on subjects including Harold Amery's posting to Ireland in 1911, his financial situation, Geoffrey Amery's health, difficulties in Malaya [later Malaysia] and retirement on health grounds. Also includes a letter from LSA to Geoffrey Amery following his internment on the outbreak of war.
1 file. |
Aug 1911-Sep 1914 |
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26
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Geoffrey Amery: panorama photographs of Perak. Photographs of [?] Amery's house in Perak [Malaya, later Malaysia] and the surrounding area.
1 file. |
Jul 1910-Jul 1911 |
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27
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Geoffrey Amery: papers on the census. Reports, rough notes and official documents on the 1911 census for Perak [Malaya, later Malaysia].
1 file; Fragile.. |
1901-Mar 1911 |
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28
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Negatives of Harold and Geoffrey Amery's photographs. Negatives of photographs in AMEL 6/4/5 and 6/4/26.
8 boxes. |
c 1903-c 1909 |
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