F. B. Hunt
Introduction
F. Bertram Hunt
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Diaries
2. Photographic Material
(a) Photographs of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, 1934-1946
(b) Photographs of social life, 1934-1946
(c) Photographs of the Sudan Defence Force, 1939-1945
3. Newspaper Cuttings
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: F. B. Hunt
Dates of creation: 1934-1946
Extent: 3 files
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: F. B. Hunt
Language: English

F. Bertram Hunt

(b. 1912)

1934-1946Inspector, Sudan Plantations Syndicate
1940-1945Service with the Sudan Defence Force


Arrangement

1. Diaries
2. Photographic Material
3. Newspaper Cuttings

Accession details

Presented by Hunt, 1983-1984

Catalogue
1. Diaries
SAD.693/1/1-145
1934 Oct - 1946 Jun
Typescript copy of extracts from the diary of F.B. Hunt [F.B.H.] including descriptions of the social life in the Gezira cotton area; duties as 3rd Inspector; release from civilian life in Oct 1939 to replace regular army officers of the Sudan Defence Force, attached to the Eastern Arab Corps at Gedaref during periods of leave; atachment to the Equatorial Corps in May 1940; return to the Sudan Plantations Syndicate after the war; resignation in Jun 1946
SAD.693/1/146-151
n.d.
Explanatory and additional notes accompanying the diary, on Khartoum, the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, interesting characters encountered by F.B.H., the wireless set, sticks used by the Sudanese, walks in the Kapoeta area and the Sudan Defence Force
SAD.693/7/1-6
1939 - 1941
Copy extracts from the same diary as in SAD 693/1/1-145 above, including a description of a meeting with the Italians at Gallabat, Abyssinia, 11-16 Dec 1939, and biographical information on H. de V. Leigh and C.R. Barnett, both employees of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate
SAD.693/7/7-8
[ca. 1940]
Copy of addendum to the above diary concerning Italian prisoners at Atbara
2. Photographic Material
(a) Photographs of the Sudan Plantations Syndicate, 1934-1946
SAD.692/19/1
Diesel ploughing engine used on cotton-growing land in the Gezira
SAD.692/19/2
Tenant farmer using ridging machinery on cotton-growing land in the Gezira
SAD.692/19/3
Sowing cotton in the Gezira
SAD.692/19/4
Camel transporting cotton to the railway station, en route to the ginning factory, Gezira
SAD.692/19/5
Sudan Plantations Syndicate cotton inspector standing next to a motor car outside the cultivated area, Gezira
SAD.692/19/6
Sudan Plantations Syndicate cotton inspector's house, Gezira
SAD.692/19/7
Sudan Plantations Syndicate employees' living quarters, Gezira
SAD.692/19/8
Weir on a minor irrigation canal in the Gezira
SAD.692/19/9
Camel policeman, Gezira
SAD.692/19/10
Group of men loading a refrigerator onto the back of a motor car outside a Sudan Plantations Syndicate cotton inspector's house, Gezira
SAD.692/19/11
Group of Ja'aliyin boys
SAD.692/19/12
Group of men making bricks at Debeiba
SAD.692/19/13
Group of men, probably Sudan Plantations Syndicate cotton farmers, sitting outside a house at Halalia
(b) Photographs of social life, 1934-1946
SAD.692/19/14-16
Wad Medani races
SAD.692/19/17
Picnic by the Blue Nile
SAD.692/19/18-22
Polo match
SAD.692/19/23
1946
Man standing next to a small sail boat on a bank of the Blue Nile
SAD.692/19/24
W. Robertson-Aikman sitting at the wheel of a motor car outside the Sudan Plantations Syndicate offices, mid 1930s
SAD.692/19/25
F.B.H.
SAD.692/19/26
Brigadier F. O. Cave, C. O., Equatorial Corps, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.692/19/27
F.B.H.'s model A Ford motor car, possibly Blue Nile Province
SAD.692/19/28
F.B.H.'s pet dogs sitting in the back of a Morris 8 motor car, possibly Blue Nile Province
(c) Photographs of the Sudan Defence Force, 1939-1945
SAD.692/19/29
1939
Soldiers of the Eastern Arab Corps, Sudan Defence Force, loading up motor trucks with baggage and equipment, possibly Kassala Province
SAD.692/19/30-31
1939
Egyptian and British flags flying on top of the guard room at Karakol, possibly Kassala Province
SAD.692/19/32-33
1939
Sudan Defence Force officers loading up a motor truck before setting out for Gallabat
SAD.692/19/34
Military fort at Gallabat
SAD.692/19/35
Sudanese officer, Sudan Defence Force
SAD.692/19/36
1943 Dec
F.B.H. in Sudan Defence Force uniform at Amariya, Egypt
SAD.692/19/37-38
1943 Dec
Sudan Defence Force soldiers preparing Christmas dinner at Amaruya, Egypt
SAD.692/19/39,42
1939 Dec 13
H. N. W. Keller, Hayes [J. M. D. Hayes or P. L. Hayes] and F. B. Hunt, three Sudan Plantations Syndicate inspectors undergoing military training with the Eastern Arab Corps at Metemma, with a group of Italian officers, including Major Siroldi, during a visit to the Italian military post for lunch
SAD.692/19/40-41
1939 Dec
H. N. W. Keller, Hayes and F. B. Hunt, three Sudan Plantations Syndicate inspectors undergoing military training with the Eastern Arab Corpsat Metemma, standing with a group of Italian officers, inspecting Major Siroldi's caged pet lion, during a visit to the Italian military post for lunch
SAD.692/19/43-44
1943 Dec
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, en route from Wadi Halfa to Shellal
SAD.692/19/45-49
1943 Dec
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, exercising in deep desert sand whilst en route between Wadi Halfa and Shellal
SAD.692/19/50
1943 Dec
N.C.O.s of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, on an outing with the Company Commander, F. B. Hunt, at Alexandria
SAD.692/19/51-52
[ca. 1943]
Drummers and buglers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, probably in Egypt
SAD.692/19/53
1943
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, in plain clothes, probably Egypt
SAD.692/19/54-57
[ca. 1943-1944]
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, performing a dance or theatrical play in costume, possibly Egypt
SAD.692/19/58
[ca. 1944]
Soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, waiting to entrain, possibly Egypt
SAD.692/19/59
Porters carrying baggage and equipment across a swamp during a trek in the southern Sudan
SAD.692/19/60
[ca. 1943]
Fatigue party of soldiers of D. Company, 11th Battalion, Sudan Defence Force, possibly Egypt
SAD.692/19/61
1939
Defences constructed by Eastern Arab Corps, Sudan Defence Force, possibly Gallabat
3. Newspaper Cuttings
SAD.693/1/152
n.d.
“The story of the eleventh.” The history of the 11th Battalion of the Sudan Defence Force of which F.B.H. was a company commander