| LC control no. | n 85814939 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Meinertzhagen, Richard, 1878-1967 |
| Variant(s) | Meinertzhagen, R. (Richard), 1878-1967 מיינרצהאגן, ריצ׳רד, 1878- |
| Associated country | England Great Britain |
| Associated place | India Burma Kenya South Africa |
| Birth date | 1878-03-03 |
| Death date | 1967-06-17 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Army. King's African Rifles |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers Intelligence officers Ornithologists |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | LCCN 59-35914: His Pirates and predators, 1959 (hdg.: Meinertzhagen, Richard, 1878-1967) Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures ... June 30, 1919: p. 339 (Col. R. Meinertzhagen, M.B.O.U.) Intelligence notes on British and German East Africa, March, 1916: preface (R. Meinertzhagen, Major, General Staff; General Headquarters, Nairobi) Wikipedia, May 16, 2019 (Richard Meinertzhagen; Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO; born 3 March 1878, London; died 17 June 1967, London; British soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist; after serving in India and Burma, he was attached to the 3rd (East African) Battalion of the King's African Rifles, and arrived in Mombasa, British East Africa, in May 1902; produced maps, landscape and wildlife drawings; crushed the Nandi Resistance by killing its leader, Koitalel Arap Samoei, at what was supposed to be a truce meeting; sent back to England in 1906 in disgrace; rehabilitated himself, assigned to the Fusiliers' Third Battalion in South Africa in 1907, then Mauritius; by 1913 he was again in India; at beginning of First World War he was posted to the intelligence staff of the British Indian Expeditionary Force; in 1915-1916 he served as chief of British military intelligence for the East Africa theater at Nairobi; assembled a large collection of bird and bird lice specimens, long considered one of Britain's greatest ornithologists; but in the 1990s an analysis of his bird collection at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring, Hertfordshire, revealed large-scale fraud involving theft and falsification) |
| Associated language | eng |
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