Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1941-1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Two reports on ordnance engineering services in Malaya during the period 1941-1942, written by Ashton following the destruction of all records at Malaya Command in 1942, [1946]; papers relating to the above reports, principally comprising Ashton's report to Air Cdre Modin on RAF Senior Training Corps mechanics attached to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Malaya, [1942-1943], an account of ordnance engineering services in Malaya during 1941-1942 by the Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (Engineering), 3 Indian Corps, [1942-1946], reports on ordnance services in Malaya during the period 1941-1942, written for Ashton by Capt E J Coulthard, H J Howland and Lt G A Neale, [1946].
System of arrangement
1 file.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1897; 2nd Lt, 1918; served in France and Belgium, Aug-Oct 1918; entered Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1923; Capt, 1929; Maj, 1935; Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, 1938-1940; Lt Col, 1940; Deputy Director of Ordnance Services (Engineering), Malaya Command, 1941-1942; Col, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1943; Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering in the War Office, 1946-1947; Brig, 1948; died in 1981.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982.
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.
Note
Decorations: MC
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Ashton, William Proctor Bell, 1897-1981, Brigadier (Subject)
- Coulthard, Eric Joseph, fl 1941-1946, Captain (Subject)
- Howland, Harry James, fl 1941-1946, Major (Subject)
- Modin, Charles Oscar Frithiof, b 1889, Air Commodore (Subject)
- Neale, G A, fl 1941-1946, Captain (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- RAF, Royal Air Force (Subject)
- Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.