Robert Batty.

Submitted by atom on Fri, 19/06/2020 - 17:48
Identity
Identifier: 
ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
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Item
Context
Repository: 
South African National Museum of Military History
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National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
Description
Archivist's notes: 

-- Service record.
-- Letters: relinguishing his post of South African Provision Officer, 15.12.1947; letter of thanks and appreciation on departure as Officer Commanding, SAPO Natal, 17.4.1942; letter on departure from Maydon Wharf, 15.12.1948.
-- Documents: Declaring the return to the Retired List of the Union Defence Forces with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 1.3.1949; 1922 Strike - an outline of association with Colonel Batty during Strike by John E Hughes, 25.4.1963; an account of a movement during the Strike by Lieutenant HGP Metcalfe, 12.3.1922; notice from Fordsburg Strike Committee stating prisoners taken "To whom it may concern", 12.3.1922.
-- Police permit, 19.6.1925.
-- Handwritten brief historical records: Left Wing - Imperial Light Horse; Western Rifles; Eastern Rifles; Western Mounted Rifles; Eastern Mounted Rifles; Southern Mounted Rifles.
-- Letter written by his wife - re brief information re the 1922 strike; 1914-1918 War pensions; Second World War South African Provision Office.
-- Photographs.

Administration
Type of Archive: 
Manuscript