Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1938 (Creation)
- 1914-1919 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to his service with 12 Gloucestershire Regt, 95 Infantry Div, 3 Div and 3 Corps, France, 1914-1918, dated 1915-1918 and 1938, principally comprising his official report of a visit to trenches near 3 Infantry Bde HQ at Novelles, 9-12 Aug 19... »
System of arrangement
Arranged in sections as above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1883; educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford; tutor to Counts Gianbattista and Cesare Spaletti, Italy, 1906-1907; called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1909; secretary to T Fisher Unwin, publisher, 1912-1914; served in France and Belgium ... »
Repository
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: OBE, MC
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Balston, Thomas, 1883-1967, Major, author and publisher (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.