Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1941-1948 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
one file or 0.01m3
Scope and content
Memoirs of service of Lt Col Charles Clements, 1941-1948; including typescript copy of his account of service as Commander, B Sqn, 4 Queens Hussars, 3 Royal Tank Regt, Greece, 1941, describing retreat from the Monastir Gap, Greece-Albania border, to Kalamata, Greece, and his subsequent capture by German forces; typescript copy of his account of service as Commandant of Bridgend POW camp for German senior commanders, 1947-1948, describing his relationship with FM Gerd Von Runstedt and the repatriation of prisoners of war. Also two photographs of Clements as a young officer.
System of arrangement
One file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1904; commissioned into 4 Queens Hussars as 2 Lieutenant, 1924; Lieutenant, 1926; Captain, 1936; Major, 1941; Commander, B Sqn, 4 Queens Hussars, 3 Royal Tank Regt, Greece, 1941; POW, Warburg, Germany, 1941-1942; POW, Rottenburg, Germany, 1942-1945; Commandant, Bridgend Prisoner of War camp, 1947-1948; retired with rank of Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, 1948; died, 1996.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family, July 1998
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: MC
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Clements, Charles Marcus Lefevre, 1904-1996, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- Royal Tank Regiment (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon