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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
N.F.Tripp (GS) Letter from W.Hillbrook.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
J.Murray (GS) Letter from D.Edwards, 4.6.18.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
J.Tulloch (GS) Diary 24.9.17 - "about 100 negro labourers". 26.9.17 - feel sorry for them ... "but they appear to enjoy life alright. They are sorry they came out here". 28.9.17 _ "Black battalion larking about - no gas masks on. Result mostly gassed".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
E.Speed (E.Africa) Letter 11, 21.9.14 - in Zululand, South Africa; Native civilians: "There are some grand-looking men among these Zulus" - one of them a "magnificent specimen of humanity".
Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
G.D.Archer (GS) Memoirs Pt.I "The Ghurkas seemed too little able to take of themselves to be really useful in such a campaign". Sikhs were steady and reliable as mule cart drivers.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
E.A.Packe (GS) Algerian troops "awfully amusing. They shoot at any blooming thing that moves". Troops got sick of sitting and arranged their own attack on the Germans with out recourse to their officers. Gruesome souvenir. Letter 27.9.14.
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
C.M.Murray (GS) Diary 12.3.16 - West Indian & West African troops in Egypt - a waste of resources "these black troops seem quite worthless ... only fitted for labourers doing the most simple of work ... (highly paid) ... giving the negro a false sense of his own worth to the Empire". 2.5.16 - "The more I see of their coloured levies the less I think of them". Indians the best, but no comparison with Europeans The Zulu is an altogether fine looking specimen of humanity".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Native Troops and Natives Generally
E.W. Howlett (AIR). Diary 15.8.18 'a fine battalion of the British West Indian Regiment men were the happiest crowd I have ever come across'.
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