Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1998 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Typescript notes and copies of photographs, compiled by his nephew, Bruce O B Williams, relating to Cadogan's life and career, 1908-1998, including genealogical information and notes on bibliographic sources on the Chindit operations in Burma, 1943-1944 (Operations LONGCLOTH, Feb-Mar 1943 and THURSDAY, Mar 1944). Also, brief typescript notes on the life and military careers of Lt Ernest Llewellyn Williams, 160 Bde, Royal Field Artillery, 34 Div, Western Front, 1917-1918, and Maj Lewis Bernard Williams, Royal Artillery, World War Two, 1939-1945.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1908; educated at West Buckland School, Devon; employed by W E Hinde Shipping Company, Cardiff, Glamorgan, 1925; employed by Gaumont British Cinemas, London and Birmingham [1930]; Lt, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army and Supplementary Reserve, 1931; service with 53 (Welsh) Div Signals, Cardiff, Glamorgan, 1931-1933; Manager, News Reel Cinema, Bristol, Gloucestershire, 1933; Manager, Forum Cinema, Bath, Somerset, 1934; employed by Howard Tenens, London, 1938; Lt, 44 (Home Counties) Div Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army, London, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Capt, 1941; temporary Maj, 1942; Officer Commanding Madras Signals Company, India, 1942; service in Diksal, Jhansi and Gwalior, India, 1942-1943; War Substantive Maj, 1943; Commanding Officer, 70 Div Signals, India, 1944; Chief Signals Officer, Chindits, Burma, 1945; demobilised as Hon Lt Col, 1945; awarded TD, 1949; Ship Broker and Member of Lloyds of London; died 1998.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1999.
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: TD
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- First Chindit Expedition (1943)
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Longcloth (1943)
- Operation Thursday (1944)
- Organizations
- Second Chindit Expedition (1944)
- State security
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Williams, Bruce O B, fl 1998, nephew of Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Clifford Cadogan (Subject)
- Cadogan, Stanley Clifford, 1908-1998, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- Williams, Ernest Llewellyn, fl 1900-1918, Lieutenant (Subject)
- Williams, Lewis Bernard, fl 1923-1945, Major (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.