Johnston family papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Johnston family papers
- Date
- 1921-1983, undated (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.68 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Autobiography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, North.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Syria.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Egypt.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged alphabetically by author.
- Preferred Citation
- 87m29: [identification of item], Johnston family papers, 1921-1983, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Robert W. P. Johnston (1920-2003), the son of Philip Preston Johnston, Jr. and Margaret Wickliffe Preston Johnston, served as a soldier in the American Field Service and later an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II. He took part in the African campaigns of WWII, including military engagements in North Africa, Syria, and Egypt. Following his service, Johnston spent the rest of his life on his farm outside Lexington, Ky. Johnston married Laura Stone Walton, the daughter of Laura De Lavillon Kinkead Walton and Samuel Barton Walton; they had no children.
- Scope and Content
- The Johnston family papers (dated 1921-1983, undated; 0.68 cubic feet; 2 boxes) consist of family diaries and memoirs of the Robert W. P. Johnston family. The most notable items of the collection are three diaries of Robert W. P. Johnston which are descriptive chronicles of war time conditions in the African Campaign of World War II. Johnston, a soldier in the American Field Service and later an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II, provides impressions and comments regarding his time spent sailing on the ship, Westpoint, as it sailed to the middle east, routines of an Army officer in the Ambulance Corps, descriptions of various places visited, and a number of accounts of military engagements in North Africa, Syria and Egypt. All three diaries have been transcribed.
- Also included is a bound typescript of the memoirs of George Blackburn Kinkead, the typescript of a carbon of the memoirs of Laura de LaVillon Kinkead Walton (daughter of George Kinkead) and a copy of the typescript of Laura Stone Walton Johnston (daughter of Laura Kinkead Walton and wife of Robert W. P. Johnston), Wanderings of an Idle Mind (Which includes some photographs). Transcriptions of two diaries written by R. W. P. Johnston's paternal uncle, Dr. Marius E. Johnston, An Arctic Journey and Through Africa on a Mule in 1910, are also present.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Johnston Laura Stone Walton - "Wanderings of an Idle Mind", 1983 March
Johnston, Marius E., Dr. - "An Arctic Journey: A diary written by Dr. Marius E. Johnston in 1910" transcript, 1983
Johnston, Marius E., Dr. - "Through Africa on a Mule: A diary written by Dr. Marius E. Johnston in 1910" transcript, 1982
Johnston, R. W. P. - African campaign diary, vol. 1, original and transcript, 1941 November 6-1942 February 28
Johnston, R. W. P. - African campaign diary, vol. 1-3, transcript, 2002
Johnston, R. W. P. - African campaign diary, vol. 2, original, 1942 March 6-September 21
Johnston, R. W. P. - African campaign diary, vol. 2, transcript, undated
Johnston, R. W. P. - African campaign diary, vol. 3, original, 1942 September 21-1943 May 11
Kinkead, George Blackburn - Memoirs of George Blackburn Kinkead, 1921 August 2
Walton, Laura De Lavillon Kinkead - Memoirs of Laura De Lavillon Kinkead Walton, 1892-1981, 1979
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