Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944-1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to his military service, 1944-1945, principally comprising war diary including maps and photographs, Sep 1944-Jul 1945; copy of report on the liberation of Belsen written for the Director of Military Government by Lt Col R I G Taylor, Officer Commanding, 63 Anti Tank Regt, [1945]; orders relating to the occupation and administration of Belsen, from Brig General Staff of 8 Corps, British Liberation Army, April 1945; report on Belsen by Capt Barker, Royal Army Medical Corps, 63 Anti Tank Regt, Jun 1945; letter to British officers from a group of Czech women prisoners describing their treatment in Belsen, 1945; Barnett's notes for a talk on Belsen, ND; photographs showing inmates and conditions in Belsen, 1945; newspaper cuttings relating to Victory in Europe Day, the liberation of Belsen and the Belsen trial, May-Oct 1945; 'Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, June 1944-May 1945', issued by HMSO, 1946.
System of arrangement
1 file.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1912; 2nd Lt, 100 Army Field Bde, Territorial Army, 1936; Lt, 1939; Capt, 1939; Officer Commanding, 249 Battery, 63 Anti-Tank Regt, Oxfordshire Yeomanry, 1944-1946; Maj, 1946; died 1998
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the centre by Barnett in 1986.
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.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Decorations: MBE
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Concentration camps
- Diaries
- Documents
- Humanitarian law
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Nonfiction
- Photographs
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Visual materials
- War
- War crimes
- War diaries
- War prisoners
- War victims
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Barnett, Benjamin George, 1912-1998, Major (Subject)
- Taylor, Richard Ian Griffith, fl 1945, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.