Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Forster, Elaine Florence Olive
Dates of creation: 1946
Extent: 1 file
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections: Sudan Archive
Created by: Forster, Elaine Florence Olive
Language:
English
(1917 - 2014)
Wife of Frederick Michael Macleod Forster (married 1945), Sudan Political Service 1939 - 1955, as follows:
| | |
| 1939-1940 | A.D.C. Khartoum |
| 1940-1945 | Governor- General's temporary commission as Bimbashi, S.D.F. (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya) |
| 1945-1948 | A.D.C./D.C. Raga, Equatoria |
| 1948 | D.C. Raga, Bahr al- Ghazal |
| 1948-1951 | D.C. Port Sudan, Kassala |
| 1951-1954 | Private Secretary to Governor-General |
| 1954-1955 | Deputy Governor Kassala |
| 1955 | Retired |
1. Trek diaries
Presented by Mrs E. Forster, 1993
Catalogue
1. Trek Diaries
SAD.761/9/1-3
1946 Sep 25
Diary of a journey by lorry from Wau to Aweil to hold an enquiry into a case of murder. Numerous delays due to heavy rain and the resulting condition of the road
SAD.761/9/4-8
1946 Oct 10-29
Diary of a journey by lorry from Wau to Deim Zubayr, stopping at Khor Gunna resthouse. Inspection of R.C. Mission school there. Later stops at Khar Gamus and Kura resthouses
SAD.761/9/9-11
1946 Dec 6-13
Account of a walking trek along the Biri river with Mr and Mrs J.N. Jewitt to report on the suitability of the area as a site for the resettlement of the Kreich tribes. Witnessed eclipse of the moon at Kuru. Walking commenced at Deim Zubayr and
continued along the left bank of the Biri
SAD.761/9/12-13
1946
Account of Christmas in Raga including a trek at dawn to view game. Encounter with a ‘honeyguide’ bird
