Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1914-1919 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
0.5 box or 0.05 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers relating to the Japanese and British capture of the German possession of Tsingtao, North China, during World War One, and a subsequent visit to Japan, 1914; papers created during command of 39 Div, 1915-1916; papers relating to post as Chief of British Military Mission to Portugal, including personal diaries, and correspondence relating to discussions held by Barnardiston on Belgian neutrality in 1906, 1916-1919.
System of arrangement
Arranged in sections as above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1858; joined 77 (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt of Foot, 1878; Adjutant 2 Bn Middlesex Regt, 1882-1886; Capt, 1885; graduated Staff College, 1888; Aide de Camp to Governor of Bermuda, 1889-1892; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Eastern District, 1894-1897; Maj, 1896; Staff Captain Intelligence Div, War Office, 1898-1899; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Intelligence Div, War Office, 1899-1901; served with 2 Bn Middlesex Regt in the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1901-1902; temporary Military Attache to Brussels and The Hague, 1902-1904; Lt Col, 1904; Military Attache to Brussels, The Hague, and the Scandinavian Courts, 1904-1906; Military Attache to Brussels and The Hague, 1906; Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1906-1910; Brevet Col, 1907; Assistant Director of Military Training and General Staff Officer Grade 1, 1910-1914; Col, 1910; served World War One, 1914-1918; commanded British troops at the capture of Tsingtao, North China, 1914; Maj Gen, 1914; Commander 39 Div, 1915-1916; Chief of British Military Mission to Portugal, 1916-1919; died 1919.
Publications: Handbook of the Belgian Army, (War Office Intelligence Department, Stationary Office, London, 1899); Handbook of the French Army, (War Office Intelligence Department, Stationary Office, London, 1901).
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1966.
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
- Japanese
- Portuguese
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mainly English, with some Japanese and Portuguese.
Finding aids
This collection level description and detailed catalogue.
Related materials
Note
Decorations: CB, MVO
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Diplomacy
- Documents
- Foreign relations
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military missions
- Military organizations
- Neutrality
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- War
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Barnardiston, Nathaniel Walter, 1858-1919, Major General (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- Japanese Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.