Collection BOMFORD - BOMFORD, Col Guy (1899-1996)

Key Information

Reference code

BOMFORD

Title

BOMFORD, Col Guy (1899-1996)

Date(s)

  • 1945 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Copy of account of the Survey Service of the Eastern and 14 Army in India and Burma during the period 1942-1945, written in 1945.

System of arrangement

1 file

General Information

Name of creator

(1899-1996)

Biographical history

Born in 1899; 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers; Lt, 1918; served in France and Belgium, 1918; served with Deputy Assistant Director of Engineering Stores, 1919; served in Waziristan, 1919-1921; Capt, 1926; Maj 1936; Lt Col 1942; Col, 1942; retired, 1949; died in 1996.

Custodial history

Copy made by the Centre in 1981 from original loaned by Bomford.

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

Off-campus collection

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Existence and location of copies

Geodetic Library, Ministry of Defence holds another copy of the report, together with some related correspondence.

Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: OBE, DSC

Alternative identifier(s)

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

Accession area