Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- (covers 1915-1944) (Creation)
- [1962] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Proof copy of article on his military career, 1915-1944, notably concerning his experiments with the transmission and interception of wireless messages and radar, [1962].
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1889; educated at Wellington College and Birmingham University; entered the Army through the Devon Militia in 1910; 2nd Lt, Devonshire Regt, 1912; served in France and Belgium with Devonshire Regt, Royal Flying Corps and Army Signal Service, 1914-1918; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1918; Experimental Officer at Signals Experimental Establishment, Woolwich, 1919; joined Royal Signals Corps, 1921; retired, 1923; served in World War Two; seconded to RN, 1942-1946; died in 1965.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1990.
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
Compiled Mar 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Bolitho, Richard John Bruce, 1889-1965, Captain (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
- Royal Flying Corps (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.