Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1943 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 files
Scope and content
Papers, photographs and maps relating to the invasions of Sicily and Italy, including the war diary of 41 Royal Marines Commando, 1943.
System of arrangement
Chronologically as above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1921; served World War Two, 1939-1945; Lt and Intelligence Officer in 41 Royal Marines Commando during the invasion of Sicily and Salerno; Capt; died 1978.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1987.
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
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
Note
Compiled Mar 1998
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Maps
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Photographs
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Special forces
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- War diaries
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Burton, John George, 1921-1978, Captain (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.