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1 item (originally an enclosure in confidential despatch number 104 of 30 May 1914)...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/1094
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This record is about the 1 item (originally an enclosure in confidential despatch number 104 of 30 May 1914)... dating from 1914 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPG 1/1094
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914
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1 item (originally an enclosure in confidential despatch number 104 of 30 May 1914) extracted from CO 533/137. Sketch map of Captain Salkeld's safari from Kismayu in Italian Somaliland (now Kismayo in Somalia) to the Lorian swamp area, East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya), showing villages, tribal areas, contours, water-courses, and comments on geographical features. Also shown are routes of Mr Haywood, Mr Dracopoli, and Mr Dundas, and the site where Mr Jenner was killed. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to about 16 miles. Compass indicator. The map bears the note 'This map will fade if exposed to the light for many months.'
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 51 cm x 50 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 1233
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981783/
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