New Guinea: Village of the middle Wussi plain on New Summer, one of the last visited by the murdered German Dammköhler. / Photographer: Scherl

Victoria Cross details of Butler, John Fitzhardinge Paul. Rank: Captain. Regiment: The King's Royal Rifle Corps, attached Pioneer Company, Gold Coast Regiment, West African Frontier Force. Date of Act Of Bravery: 17 November 1914. Campaign: 1914-1918 War. Locale: Cameroons, West Africa.

Note: Approx. 10 pieces, mostly minutes of ward conferences, loose in folders.

Note: Approx. 1 cm thick, loose in folder.

Contains: 4 expertises by Escherich

[Letters from other Mission Houses and Friends of Mission] Mission Director Öhler (Basel) on behalf of the Committee of the German evangelical Church in Basel. Missions to the Breklum Mission concerning the planned Africa Mission. The question is 'whether you could not envisage the aforementioned new area in West Africa for your work instead of the planned areas in East Africa' in order to prevent its occupation by Catholics.

Contains: also: Marriage of the Negro Dedo Meyer, 1887 / 1888.

Treatment of enemy private property in occupied territories: typed memoranda, with list of colonies concerned; Togoland, Cameroons, Samoa, New Guinea, German South West Africa and German East Africa; includes typed 'Order Concerning the Liquidation of British Colonies', by Governor-General von Bissing, in occupied Belgium. Original Correspondence From: Foreign Office. Folio(s): 160-205.

Contains among other things: Ships: "Elisabeth", "Prinz", "Adalbert", "Olga", "Ariadne", "Stein", "Gneisenau", "Cyclop", "Nautilus", "Iltis", "Stosch", "Möwe", "Sophie", "Wolf", "Adler", "Nixe", "Albatros", "Bismarck", "Elisabeth": Sydney, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, Jokohama, 16. Oct. 1884 - 2 Jan. 1885 "Nautilus": Chemulpo, Shanghai, 9 - 21 July 1885 "Polecat": Chemulpo, Mokpo, July 1885 "Polecat": Mokpo, Shanghai, 15 - 20 July 1885 "Seagull": Somali coast, Manda-Bai, island Songa-songa, May 1886 "Bismarck": Jaluit, Ebon, Namourik, Madjuro, 29 May - 3 June 1886 Meteorological observations in St. Thomas, 1878-1883

Contains above all: Collection of travel reports, often transcribed, correspondence with Africans on trips to Germany. - Note: Loose in folder, approx. 3 cm thick.

Contains: Reports in English by J. Graf von Pfeil about his travels after: New Guinea Dec. 1887 - July 1889, Java July - Sept. 1887, East Africa 1891, South Africa May - Dec. 1892, Spain and Morocco March - May 1897

Contains above all: Africa Congo Sierra Leone French Guenea Egypt Ivory Coast Italian East Africa Madagascar Cameroon French West Africa Morocco Tunis Burma

Contains: Sample chapter on Bible translation, partially stapled, approx. 250 p. in folder.

Contains: Approx. 30 case files related to individual employees, approx. 30 reports and other letters from the training centres. - Note: Loose in folder.

Contains among other things: Examination papers; negotiations on the African assistants in Germany. - Note: Approx. 20 operations, loose in folder

Contains among other things: Regulations for the approval of foreign warships Port regulations for German New Guinea

Contains among other things: Trade reports - Compilation of the most common goods in trade with German East Africa - Report on trade and industrial relations in the southern Russian cities. Contains: Import of French colonial sugar into Holland p. 5 - Proposals on transport companies in the Near East p. 8 - Warning of the company "Societa Generale di Commissione Esportazione ed Importazione" in Napoli (=Naples) p. 12, p. 20 - Fabrication of tulle curtains in Russia p. 14 - Bogus companies "Bankvereinigung Grün