Collection DEANE-DRUMMOND - DEANE-DRUMMOND, Maj Gen Anthony John (b 1917)

Key Information

Reference code

DEANE-DRUMMOND

Title

DEANE-DRUMMOND, Maj Gen Anthony John (b 1917)

Date(s)

  • 1958-1989 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

0.5 box (0.005 cubic metres)

Scope and content

Papers of Major General Anthony John Deane-Drummond on 22 Regiment Special Air Service (SAS) Operations in Muscat and Oman, 1958-1959, comprising reports, operational instructions, correspondence, signals and situation reports. Including reports on the ... »

System of arrangement

1 file, listed and arranged by Maj Gen Deane-Drummond

General Information

Name of creator

(1917-)

Biographical history

Born 1917; educated at Marlborough College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned, Royal Signals, 1937; war service in Europe and N Africa, Prisoner of War, Italy, 1941 (escaped 1942); Lt 1940; acting Capt 1942, acting Maj, 1943, Capt 1945; ... »

Custodial history

Given by Maj Gen Deane-Drummond, Oct 2000

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.

Related materials

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London, holds the papers of Maj Gen Corran William Brooke Purdon (b 1921) containing material on his command of the Sultan's Armed Forces, Oman 1967-1970; papers of Brig Peter Trevenan Thwaites (19... »

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Archivist's note

Sources: Who's Who, 2000, Army Lists, _The SAS: Savage Wars of Peace _by Anthony Kemp, John Murray Ltd, London 1994. Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project