Collection BALLARD - BALLARD, Brig Gen Colin Robert (1868-1941)

Key Information

Reference code

BALLARD

Title

BALLARD, Brig Gen Colin Robert (1868-1941)

Date(s)

  • 1914-1916 (Creation)
  • 1900-1901 (Creation)
  • [1874] (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 volume

Scope and content

Correspondence, [1874], 1900-1901, 1914-1916, principally comprising letters to his family describing his service with 6 Corps, Mounted Infantry, South Africa, 1900-1901, and with 1 Norfolk Regt and 7, 95 and 14 Infantry Bdes, France and Belgium, 1914-191... »

System of arrangement

1 volume.

General Information

Name of creator

(1868-1941)

Biographical history

Born in 1868; 2nd Lt, Norfolk Regt, 1888; Lt, 1890; served in Burma, 1891-1892; Chitral, 1895; Tirah, 1897-1898; Capt, 1898; Station Commandant, South Africa, 1899-1900; Staff Officer, Mounted Infantry Corps Mobile Column, South Africa, 1900-1902; ... »

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1968.

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.

Uploaded finding aid

Note

Decorations: CB, CMG

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

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