Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1940-1945] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copy of account of his failed attempt to join 8 Lancashire Fusiliers in France, covering his journey from Le Havre to Amiens, and his return from Amiens to the UK via Cherbourg, 17 May- 5 June 1940, written in [1940-1945].
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1898; 2nd Lt, Lancashire Fusiliers, 1917; Lt, 1918; Capt, 1930; served in France and Belgium, 1917-1918; Maj, 1938; served in France, 1940; died 1966.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1985.
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.
Note
Compiled Aug 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- 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.