Collection CHARRINGTON - CHARRINGTON, Brig Harold Vincent Spencer (1886-1965)

Key Information

Reference code

CHARRINGTON

Title

CHARRINGTON, Brig Harold Vincent Spencer (1886-1965)

Date(s)

  • 1914-1965 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Scope and content

Papers relating to service with the 12 (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers during World War One, notably relating the advance into Flanders, the first Battle of Ypres, and the advance to, and fighting around, Amiens, 1914-1935; the writing and publication ... »

System of arrangement

Arranged in sections as above. Later accessions have been grouped together.

General Information

Name of creator

Charrington, Harold Vincent Spencer, 1886-1965, Brigadier
(1886-1965)

Biographical history

Born in 1886; 2nd Lt 12 (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers, 1905; Lt, 1907; employed with Egyptian Army, 1913-1914; Capt, 1914; served World War One, France and Belgium, 1914-1918; acting Maj, 1916, 1917-1919; Brevet Maj, 1919; Maj, 1923; General Staff ... »

Repository

Custodial history

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1968, with two further accessions in 1974 and 1981.

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

Finding aids

This collection level description and detailed catalogue.

Note

Decorations: DSO, MC

Subjects

Place access points

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

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