An ebay purchase with Sudan and Royal Armoured Corps referenced in the description but no owners name given to the poor condition scrapbook with lots of loose photos and a few negatives.
Sadly nothing re the Sudan Defence Force armoured cars I hoped for.
The subsequent research stumbled through a Khartoum birth, Latymer Upper School, Ireland 1901/1911 census records, Framlingham College, Oxford University, Sudan Railway Police, to the first British Governor of Spandau prison.
To be digitized and some conservation folders sourced.
The clue to unlocking the name of the owner came via the hard to read data on the reverse of one of the photos.
It turned out the badly formed surname was Quinlan with the owner being Khartoum born Derek Hugh John Quinlan. DHJ appears to have gone to Latymer Upper School, Framlingham College, the Royal Armoured Car towards the end of WW2, and then to Oxford University, becoming a colonial District Officer in places like Tanganyika.
Pictured beside him in Royal Air Force Uniform is his father Hugh Quinlan. Born in Sheffield in 1895, Hugh was in Ireland for the 1901 and 1911 census
Hugh's father Andrew Quinlan was a Quartermaster Sgt in the Royal Artillery in Templemore until 1907, after which he became a Barrack Sergeant/Warden living in Youghal. The father died in October 1916.
Hugh and his brother appear in an item in the Skibbereen and West Carberry Eagle in September 1910 as pupils at the Youghal Endowed Grammar School
having been registered with the South Abbey School in Youghal in 1907
Hugh served in the Rifle Brigade (no 2664) and Labour Corps (no 345951) in WW1
and then went to the Sudan as a clerk/accountant, taking up roles in the Railway and the Prisons.
Another visit to Durham University is needed to look at his files :
He left Sudan in 1940 and joined the Royal Air Force rising to the rank of Squadron Leader. His papers lodged with the Imperial War Museum have him in this rank :
Photograph albums belonging to Hugh sold earlier this year and reference his time as the first British Governor at Spandau Prison following WW2.
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