Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1950] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Draft text entitled 'My tour with the Pakistan Army' covering the period 1947-1949, written at the request of Maj Gen Shankal-Riza for a history of the Pakistan Artillery.
System of arrangement
Single item.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1905; educated at Westminster School and Selwyn College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1926; Capt,1937; served in France, 1939-1940 and 1944; Maj, 1943; commanded 3 SP Regt Royal Pakistan Artillery, 1947-1949; Lt Col, 1949; Commander, 49 Armoured Div (Territorial Army), 1951; Col, 1952; Commander, 64 Anti-Aircraft Bde (Territorial Army), 1954; Commandant, Coast Artillery School and Inspector, Coast Defences (Home), 1956; Brig, 1956; Commander, Plymouth Garrison, 1957; retired, 1957; died in 1980.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1980.
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
Compiled Aug 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Riza, Shankal, fl 1949-1950, Pakistani Major General (Subject)
- Pakistan Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.