Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1935-1972 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Scope and content
The collection consists of pamphlets written by Davidson, papers relating to his part in the Allied Military Mission to Moscow, USSR, 1939 and papers relating to his career in World War Two as Commander in the Royal Artillery and as Director of Military ... »
System of arrangement
The papers are arranged chronologically in sections.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1892; educated at Marlborough and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commisioned into the Royal Regt Artillery 1911; served World War One, 1914-1919 (wounded, despatches four times, MC and bar, DSO); Brevet Maj, 1929; Maj 1929; Brevet Lt Col, 1933; ... »
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre in two accessions, by Davidson in 1969 and by E E Thomas of the Cabinet Office Historical Section in 1988
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
- French
Finding aids
This collection level description and detailed catalogue.
Related materials
Note
Decorations: CB, DSO, MC
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Artillery
- Diaries
- Diplomacy
- Documents
- Foreign relations
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Maps
- Military engineering
- Military equipment
- Military intelligence
- Military missions
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- Weapons
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Mary, 1867-1953, Queen Consort of George V (Subject)
- Thomas, E E, fl 1988, Cabinet Office Historical Section (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.