Memoirs of Sir Walter Crocker [manuscript]. 1902-1975.

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Memoirs of Sir Walter Crocker [manuscript]. 1902-1975.

The memoirs cover the period 1902-1975. They record in considerable detail Crocker's early life in South Australia, his education at Adelaide, Oxford and Stanford Universities, and his outstanding career as a diplomat, soldier, academic and official in the British Colonial Service.

1 v. (380 leaves).

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