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RCS contains:
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RCMS 101 Portraits of the Cabul prisoners
RCMS 102 Three months in Thibet
RCMS 103 Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore
RCMS 104 Malayan town planning papers
RCMS 106 Vocabulary of Bajau
RCMS 107 Papers and photographs of Thomas Buckley
RCMS 108 Personal and family papers of Lillian Newton
RCMS 109 Malayan official programmes
RCMS 11 Records of the Commonwealth Producers' Organisation
RCMS 111 Imagining Hong Kong: historic photographs at the time of change
RCMS 112 Footloose in S.E. Asia
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Papers and photographs of Thomas Buckley

Title Papers and photographs of Thomas Buckley
Reference GBR/0115/RCMS 107
Creator Buckley, Thomas Alfred, fl 1936-1957, soils chemist
Covering Dates 1936–1957
Extent and Medium 2 envelopes + 1 box; art work/paper/photograph; Printed
Repository Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library
Content and context

Thomas Alfred Buckley, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., was born in Yorkshire, and worked as a soils chemist for the Agricultural Department in Kuala Lumpur. He was a member of the Selangor volunteers in Malaya, 1928-1940, then transferred to the Local Defence Corps, comprised of mixed races. He later became a Lecturer in Chemistry at the Agricultural College, Njoro, Kenya. He was married to Sarah Hannah Buckley.

Material relating to the Buckley family's time in Malaya and Kenya and a collection of menus from ship journeys.

Presented by Hilda Buckley, daughter of Thomas Buckley.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Papers and photographs of Thomas Buckley, RCMS 107

Further information

A description of the material by Hilda Buckley is with the collection. Indexed

This collection level description was created by RAS.

Index Terms
Asia
Malay Peninsula
Buckley, Thomas Alfred (fl 1936-1957) soils chemist
RCS/RCMS 107 contains:
1 Photographs of Malaya.
25 photographs; photograph.
circa 1936-circa 1940
2 Drawings of Asiatic people in Malaya. 'Be introduced, wherein you meet everyday types of Asiatic people drawn in pencil from life by E.J.M. McNaughton', undated.
1 album; art work.
3 Malayan publications.
2 volumes; paper.
1936–1940
4 Kenya papers.
1 envelope; paper.
1954–1956
5 Ship menus.
30 menus; paper.
14 Mar. 1948–21 Sep. 1957

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