Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Summerfield, Robert Miles
Dates of creation: 1912-1938
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Summerfield, Robert Miles
Language:
English
(1888 - 1978)
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| 1911 | Seconded from the Royal Engineers |
| 1911-1938 | Posts and Telegraphs, Sudan Government |
| 1914 | Zeraf Valley patrol |
| 1914-1915 | Special duty on the construction of the communications of the Suez Canal zone |
| 1916 | Darfur campaign |
| 1917 | Lau Nuer patrol |
| 1918-1927 | Superintendent of Telephones, Khartoum |
| 1927 | Assistant Telephone Engineer, Khartoum |
| 1928-1932 | Telephone Engineer, Khartoum |
| 1933-1938 | Superintending Engineer, Khartoum |
| 1938 | Retired |
1. Official Papers
2. Personal Papers
3. Newspaper Cuttings
4. Photographic Material
5. Printed Material
Presented by Mr R. E. Summerfield, 1996
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.401/5/1
[c. 1938]
Record of R.M.Summerfield's [R.M.S.] Sudan service, listing places and inclusive dates
2. Personal Papers
SAD.401/5/2-4
1937
Fourth class Order of the Nile awarded to R.M.S. with licence to wear the decoration from King George VI
3. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.401/5/5-7
n.d. and 1938
Cuttings from
The Sphinx and other newspapers recording R.M.S.'s travel home on leave and retirement after 27 years' service
4. Photographic Material
SAD.793/1/1-46
1912 - 1913
Album of photographs taken by R.M.S., northern and southern Sudan:
SAD.793/1/1
R.M.S. (?) on camel
SAD.793/1/2
Group of Arab boys with Shaykh Zawayd
SAD.793/1/3
Group on trek
SAD.793/1/4,12
View of Mongalla from the river
SAD.793/1/5
Omdurman post office
SAD.793/1/6
Unidentified riverside village
SAD.793/1/7
Rumbek post office
SAD.793/1/8
R.M.S. (?) on deck of barge
SAD.793/1/9
Small monument behind railings, on edge of town
SAD.793/1/10
Fishing party, possibly Dinka
SAD.793/1/11
Malakal post office
SAD.793/1/13
Group of men, possibly porters, with donkeys
SAD.793/1/14
Jabal el Hilla post office
SAD.793/1/15
Group of young Jur girls
SAD.793/1/16
Men and donkeys in front of tukl
SAD.793/1/17
British members of Posts and Telegraphs crew
SAD.793/1/18
Unidentified brick building
SAD.793/1/19
Dinka men in dugout canoe hunting for hippo
SAD.793/1/20
All Saints Cathedral under construction
SAD.793/1/21
Dinka (?) village
SAD.793/1/22
British crew members on deck of ship
SAD.793/1/23
Group of British men on board ship
SAD.793/1/24
Thatched verandah
SAD.793/1/25
Ships in Port Sudan harbour
SAD.793/1/26
Dinka wardance
SAD.793/1/27
Royal Engineers at Khartoum station, May 1913
SAD.793/1/28
Four Shilluk men with spears
SAD.793/1/29
Telegraph party with camels, Blue Nile Province 1912, R.M.S. standing centre
SAD.793/1/30
Baker leaving the Sudan by train from Khartoum station
SAD.793/1/32
Camels transporting telegraph poles at Roseires, 1912
SAD.793/1/33
R.M.S. in sailing boat
SAD.793/1/34
Bob Turner taking the roll call, probably Sudanese telegraph crew
SAD.793/1/35
Family on the move, travelling by oxen, possibly Baqqarah
SAD.793/1/36
Small steamer
SAD.793/1/37
Two British officials
SAD.793/1/38
British man standing in doorway of railway car
SAD.793/1/39
Fadl al-Mula and members of telegraph crew
SAD.793/1/40
Crossing river on trek
SAD.793/1/41-42
Views of Roseires with telegraph pole in centre
SAD.793/1/43
British officer in uniform
SAD.793/1/44
Memorial cross to Corporal Ernest Westaway, Royal Engineers (died 1907), at Jebelein
SAD.793/1/45
R. Fraser on verandah of house at Tawfikia, 1914
SAD.793/1/46
Memorial cross to G.H. Lester, Royal Engineers (1887-1908), at Kongor
SAD.793/2/1-24
1912 - 1915
Album of photographs taken by R.M.S., mostly in southern Sudan:
SAD.793/2/1
Hartebeest, shot Bahr el Ghazal, May 1915
SAD.793/2/2
Group on trek
SAD.793/2/3
“Billy” with shot tiang
SAD.793/2/4
Omdurman street
SAD.793/2/5
Members of contruction party with warthog, shot Bahr el Ghazal, May 1915
SAD.793/2/6
Rest house on the Tonj-Rumbek road
SAD.793/2/7
O'Brien and Rees on verandah of brick building
SAD.793/2/8
C. Manton with shot tiang
SAD.793/2/9
Jabal el Hilla post office
SAD.793/2/10
Telegraph construction party in front of tebeldi tree
SAD.793/2/11
British officer with white eared cob, shot Bahr el Ghazal Apr 1915
SAD.793/2/12
Lau river, Bahr el Ghazal
SAD.793/2/13
Two bearers with small lion, shot at Khor Ragaba near Tonga, 1915
SAD.793/2/14
Loading camels, Blue Nile, Oct 1912
SAD.793/2/15
Aerial view of bi-plane over desert
SAD.793/2/16
Telephone station, Kilo 32, Bahr el Zeraf, 1914
SAD.793/2/17
Wedding party, possibly Blue Nile
SAD.793/2/18
Southern women drawing water from well
SAD.793/2/19
J. Boscott and party with railway trolley
SAD.793/2/20
Rest house at Melut, Upper White Nile, 1913
SAD.793/2/21
Malakal post office
SAD.793/2/22
Thatching tukl
SAD.793/2/23
Unidentified village
SAD.793/2/24
Paddle steamer at Khartoum (loose photo)
SAD.793/3/1-24
1913 - 1915
Album of photographs taken by R.M.S., chiefly in southern Sudan:
SAD.793/3/1
British officer sitting on elephant (tusks 50 rotls), shot May 1915
SAD.793/3/2
Bearers with small roan antelope, shot White Nile 1913
SAD.793/3/3
Dead crocodile
SAD.793/3/4
Roan antelope shot by C.E. Brooks
SAD.793/3/5
Buffalo, shot Upper White Nile, May 1913
SAD.793/3/6
Lioness and cub, shot Upper White Nile, May 1913
SAD.793/3/7
British officer with antelope
SAD.793/3/8
Dead hippopotamus on river bank
SAD.793/3/9
Herd of waterbuck, River Zeraf 1915 (taken by C. Manton)
SAD.793/3/10
Hippo in river
SAD.793/3/11
Herd of tiang, River Zeraf, Jan 1915 (taken by C. Manton)
SAD.793/3/12
Telegraph pole damaged by birds
SAD.793/3/13
C.E. Brooks with hartebeest, shot Bahr el Ghazal, Apr 1915
SAD.793/3/14
British officer with monkey
SAD.793/3/15
C.E. Brooks with dead roan antelope
SAD.793/3/16
Dinka wedding
SAD.793/3/17
Building damaged by a storm at Shambe, May 1915
SAD.793/3/18,24
Young Jur girl
SAD.793/3/19
Linemen on patrol, Blue Nile
SAD.793/3/20
Dinka man with dead bird
SAD.793/3/21
Two Sudanese men in lush vegetation
SAD.793/3/22
View of Tawfikia
SAD.793/3/23
J. Boscott with dead lion
SAD.793/5/1
[pre 1920]
Photograph of the HQ staff, Posts and Telegraphs, Khartoum. Seated left to right: R.M.S., Abellal Efendi, Mr. Dennett, Col. Moir (Director Posts and Telegraphs), Capt. Fawcett, O'Brien and Sgt. Hawkes
Printed material
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into library and catalogued on OPAC
