Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1940-1943 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Typescript copy of account of Crawfurd's service with 29 Battery, 19 Field Regt Royal Artillery, 3 Infantry Bde, 1 Div during Operation DYNAMO, the evacuation of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from Dunkirk, France, 1-3 Jun 1940. Also, copy of ... »
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1907; educated at Fonthill, East Grinstead, Sussex, the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1927; service with 19 Bde Royal Artillery, British Army of Rhine, Germany,... »
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 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
Finding aids
This collection level description.
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 Aug 1999
Subjects
- Airborne warfare
- Armed forces
- Artillery
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military engineering
- Military equipment
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Dynamo (1940)
- Operation Fustian (1943)
- Organizations
- State security
- War
- Warfare
- Weapons
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Crawfurd, Charles Hamilton Payne, 1907-1943, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- Hammick, Robert Townsend, 1882-1947, Brigadier (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.