Context (CMS Context)
This material was deposited by Mrs.Caroline Burkitt (nee Kennedy Shaw), daughter of Eleanor Kennedy Shaw and wife of Miles Burkitt, at the opening of the M.Phil exhibition 'Tools, Trade and Teaching: Miles C. Burkitt and the Archaeological Collections' on 26 February 2008.
07/12/2010
Created by: maa on 07/12/2010

Description (CMS Description)
Correspondance from Vance Haynes, University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, to Eleanor Kennedy Shaw in 1982 regarding Haynes' discovery of a LRDG Chevrolet in the Western Desert of Egypt. This vehicle was associated with her husband, W.B. Kennedy Shaw's patrol during World War II. Also enclosed is a letter from Haynes to Major General David Lloyd-Owen regarding this vehicle, a photograph of the LRDG, and an article from Science Magazine(13 August 1982, Vol. 217, No 4560) entitled 'Great Sand Sea and Selima Sand Sheet, Eastern Sahara: Geochronology of Desertification' by Vance Haynes.
07/12/2010
Created by: maa on 07/12/2010