Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1986 (Creation)
- [1960-1970] (Creation)
- [1944] (Creation)
- 1940 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copies of papers relating to his life and career, 1921-1986, dated 1940, [1944], [1960-1970], 1986, notably including notes taken on a mountain warfare course, Abbottabad, India, Apr 1940; his Royal Ulster Rifles Historical Record, giving personal details and a career summary, 1921-1959, dated [1960-1970]; copy photographs of Donlea, 1935, and 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles with Gen Sir Law Bernard Montgomery, [1944].
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in India in 1910; educated at Mayfield College, Sussex, 1921-1927; enlisted in Life Guards, 1928; commissioned into 2 Royal Ulster Rifles, 1933; served with 1 Royal Ulster Rifles in Alexandria, 1935, Hong Kong, 1935-1937, and Shanghai, 1937; Lt 1936; served in India, 1937-1939; Capt, 1939; served with 2 East Surrey Regt, 1940, 2 Royal Ulster Rifles, 1943-1944, and 1 King's (Liverpool) Regt, 1946; Maj, 1946; Company Commander, 1 Royal Irish Fusiliers, British Army of the Rhine, 1950; served with King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1952-1954; Lt Col, 1953; died in 1986.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre in 1989 from originals loaned by the family.
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
Decorations: MC
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.