Collection ANDERSON, V - ANDERSON, Lt Col Victor Dennistoun Winstanley (1900-1942)

Key Information

Reference code

ANDERSON, V

Title

ANDERSON, Lt Col Victor Dennistoun Winstanley (1900-1942)

Date(s)

  • 1929-1946 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Scope and content

Papers of Lt Col Victor Dennistoun Winstanley Anderson, 1929-1946, relating to service with the Indian Army, comprising group photograph including Anderson and published material including History of the 1st Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment, Sherdil Li Paltan. [by Lt Col G H Thompson], 1946; Passing it on: short talks on tribal fighting on the North West Frontier of India by Gen Sir Andrew Skeen (Gale & Polden, 1932) and the Manual of Military Law, 1929.

System of arrangement

Original order

General Information

Name of creator

(1900-1942)

Biographical history

Born 1900; Indian Army, 1919; Adjutant and Quarter Master, Small Arms School India, 1930-1931; second in command of 1 Battalion, 14 Punjab Regiment, 12 Dec 1941-9 Jan 1942; killed in Malaya, 1942.

Custodial history

Presented to the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives by the family in 1998.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related descriptions

Alternative identifier(s)

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery. Sources: Army List, Jan 1942.

Accession area