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BFE - Records of the British Families Education Service/Service Children's Education Association
B - Memoirs and papers collected by staff working for the BFES/SCE staff
13 - Libya
StorageSite
UCL Institute of Education
Level
File
Reference Number
BFE/B/13/1
Title
Papers from Jim Eccleston
Date
1958-1963
Description
Jim Ecclestone was headteacher at the Army School in Tripoli, Libya. He died in 2011 and these papers were donated to the archives by his daugher. Comprises:
Photographs of visits made to the school by Major General Moore-Coulson, Director of Army Education and Archbishop ? in 1961; and the presentation of flowers at the 1963 sports day (Copyright: Army Public Relations)
Colour copy of the HMI report on the school March 1961
Also includes:
Issue of Torch the journal of the Royal Army Education Corps April 1962. Includes articles on: 'The education of the backward soldier; 'torch light down under' (on Army Education in New Zealand); Education in the Australian Army; Gurkha Resettlement; 'RAEC in Kuwait (a personal story by Captain J McLean); news from each Command; sports news; staff news; list of members; accounts
Copy of a report on a local study by the pupils of an all-age school in Homs Spring 1958 (the headteacher of the school was Peter Lindup) - includes photographs of life in Homs
Extent
1 folder
AccessStatus
Open
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