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<strong>ALAN</strong> <strong>SAUNDERS</strong><br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-<strong>0253</strong><br />
<strong>Reference</strong> <strong>code</strong>: <strong>GB165</strong>-<strong>0253</strong><br />
Title: Alan Saunders Collection<br />
Name of creator: Saunders, Alan (1886-1964) Colonial Policeman<br />
Dates of creation of material: 1935-1937; 1946-1951<br />
Level of description: Fonds<br />
Extent: 1 box<br />
Biographical history: <strong>SAUNDERS</strong>, Col. Alan (1886-1964)<br />
Born 1886. Educated Christ’s Hospital. Served Indian Police, 1908-14; war service,<br />
1914-20, in France, Flanders and Palestine; District Commandant, Jerusalem, Palestine<br />
Police, 1920-26; Deputy Inspector-General, 1926-35; OBE 1932; Inspector-General,<br />
Nigeria Police, 1936-37; Inspector-General of Police and Prisons, Palestine, 1937;<br />
Member, Palestine Advisory Council, 1937-43; CMG 1941; retired from Colonial Service,<br />
1944; Chief Police Adviser, Allied Military HQ (Greece), 1944; Director, Middle East<br />
Censorship, 1945-46; Commissioner Police, Tripolitania, 1946-52. Married, 1920, Eva<br />
<strong>St</strong>rickland (d.1952): 1 son. Died 26 March 1964.<br />
Scope and content: Farewell autograph book from Palestine Police colleagues on his<br />
transfer to Nigeria, 1935; Nigerian Police Reports, 1936-37; Tripolitania Police Force and<br />
Prison Service Administrative Reports, 1946-51; maps of Kenya, 1947, and Tanganyika,<br />
1957; Soldier: The British Army Magazine, vol. 6, no. 5, July 1950 containing an article<br />
on the Tripolitania Police, pp 18-21; printed ephemera; epaulettes, badges and buttons<br />
from Palestine and Nigeria Police uniforms. Photograph collection.<br />
System of arrangement: Chronological<br />
Access conditions: Open<br />
Language of material: English<br />
Conditions governing reproduction: No restrictions on copying or quotation other than<br />
statutory regulations and preservation concerns<br />
Custodial history: In the possession of Col. Saunders and his family.<br />
Immediate source of acquisition: Received from his daughter-in-law through the Oxford<br />
Development Records Project, June 1983<br />
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Related Units of Description:<br />
In MEC Archive<br />
Papers of other British Mandate Palestine Policemen include:<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-0001 ADAMSON, Richard. Accounts by a Palestine Police Officer of the Cairo<br />
conspiracy trial in 1919 and the riots in Jerusalem, Easter 1920. 7 sheets.<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-0044 CAFFERATA, Col. Raymond Oswald. (1897-1966). Photocopies of presscuttings<br />
and notes on the life of Col. R.O. Cafferata, Palestine Police 1922-<br />
48. 54 sheets<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-0082 DE LACY, James Percival (1906-87). MS notes on his service with the<br />
Northern Frontier Division, Palestine Police, 1937-39. 3 sheets.<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-0101 FARADAY, John Alexander Mulloy. (1899-1986). Papers relating to the<br />
Safad disturbances of 1929 and the Jaffa riots of 1933. 2 boxes. Handlist.<br />
Photographic collection.<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-0240 RICE, Col. Harry Patrick (1886-1973). Memos on the protection of Palestine<br />
Government officials during the Arab Rebellion, written by Rice as Acting<br />
Inspector-General of Police, November 1937. 8 sheets.<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-<strong>0253</strong> <strong>SAUNDERS</strong>, Col. Alan. (1886-1964). Farewell autograph book from<br />
Palestine Police colleagues on his transfer to Nigeria, 1935; Nigerian Police<br />
Reports, 1936-37; Tripolitania Police Force and Prison Service<br />
Administration Reports, 1946-51; maps of Kenya, 1947, and Tanganyika,<br />
1957; article on the Tripolitania Police in Soldier: The British Army<br />
Magazine, vol. 6, no. 5, July 1950, pp.18-21; printed ephemera; epaulettes,<br />
badges and buttons from Palestine and Nigeria Police uniforms. 1 box.<br />
Handlist. Photographic collection.<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-0255 SCOTT, Frank Montgomery. (1892-1974). Official letters of thanks and<br />
appreciation, 1928-48, for his work in the Palestine Police and Prisons<br />
Service, and the Control Commission for Germany; medical reports for<br />
injuries sustained by Scott in the discharge of his duties in Jaffa, 1930; presscuttings;<br />
Palestine Prisons Service Administration report, 1946. 21 sheets; 1<br />
item.<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-0281 TEGART, Sir Charles Augustus. (1881-1946). Papers relating to British<br />
policy in Palestine, internal security, the reorganisation of the Palestine<br />
Police, construction of border defences, and police work in general, 1937-39;<br />
personal papers relating to the attempt on his life, 31 December 1938; presscuttings.<br />
4 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.<br />
<strong>GB165</strong>-0224 PALESTINE POLICE OLD COMRADES’ ASSOCIATION Records of the<br />
Palestine Police Old Comrades’ Association, such as newsletters and<br />
membership certificates, 1946-2000; personal papers of Palestine Policemen<br />
1920s-1990s; mandate period material such as police training manuals,<br />
official publications and newspapers 1920-1948; and material compiled by<br />
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Edward Horne as official historian of the Palestine Police Old Comrades’<br />
Association. Uncatalogued. c50 boxes.<br />
Please note that further accessions of papers relating to the Palestine Police may have been<br />
acquired after the compilation of this catalogue.<br />
Finding aids: In Guide; Handlist<br />
Archivist’s note: Fonds level description created by C. Brown 19 October 1999 and<br />
revised by D. Usher 5 November 2003<br />
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FILE AND ITEM LEVEL DESCRIPTION OF THE <strong>ALAN</strong> <strong>SAUNDERS</strong><br />
COLLECTION<br />
File 1 Book containing “signatures of British and Palestinian Superior<br />
Police Officers of the Palestine Police...” presented to Saunders on<br />
his transfer to the Nigeria Police<br />
File 2 Annual reports of the Nigeria Police Force 1936 and 1937<br />
Press cutting from “Nigeria Daily Times” about the Nigeria Police<br />
Force 24.11.37<br />
File 3 Administrative Reports of the Tripolitania Police Force and prisons<br />
service for the years 1946-1951 and cases reported by Libyan<br />
Provinces 1951<br />
File 4 Copy of “Soldier”, the British Army magazine containing an article<br />
on the Tripolitania police by Peter Lawrence<br />
File 5 Map of Kenya Colony 1947<br />
Map of Tananyika 1957<br />
File 6 Miscellaneous ephemera – Palestine and Nigeria police buttons,<br />
epaulettes etc.<br />
1936 – 1937<br />
1946-1951<br />
July 1950<br />
1947-1957<br />
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