Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1928-1978 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers including maps, relating to operations of British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, 1940-1941; Staff College study of Italian campaign, 1915; papers including those by Maj Gen G M Lindsay relating to armoured support for 7 Infantry Brigade, 1933-1934; appendix, including maps of Britain annotated for exercises including SPARTAN, 1943; correspondence dated 1977-1978 with Martin Alexander of St Antony's College, Oxford including Franco-British military relations, 1939-1940; notes of conversation in 1975 with Dr A W J Houghton relating to the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940.
System of arrangement
Arranged in sections as above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1896; educated at Eton; 2nd Lt, the Rifle Brigade, 1914; served in France, World War One, 1915-1918; Lt, 1916; Private Secretary to his father when Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Labour, 1918; Capt, 1921; Brevet Maj, 1932; Brigade Maj, 7 Infantry Brigade, 1932-1934; Brevet Lt Col, 1935; General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office, 1935-1937; retired pay, 1937; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Deputy Director, Home Guard and acting Maj Gen, 1941; Director General, Home Guard and Territorial Army, 1941-1944; Col and temporary Maj Gen, 1942; Deputy Adjutant General, 1944-1945; President of West Midland Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve Association, 1968-1969; died in 1982.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre in 1965 and in 1978 by Bridgeman.
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 and detailed catalogue.
Existence and location of originals
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Related materials
Note
Decorations: KBE, CB, DSO, MC
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Armoured forces
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Maps
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Spartan (1943)
- Organizations
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Alexander, Martin, fl 1977-1978, historian (Subject)
- Bridgeman, Robert Clive, 1896-1982, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman, Major General (Subject)
- Houghton, A W J, fl 1975, historian (Subject)
- Lindsay, George Mackintosh, 1880-1956, Major General (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- British Expeditionary Force (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.