Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1980 (Creation)
- 1940 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to his service in the BEF during 1940, dated 1940 and 1980, notably including a text comprising a description of his role as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, General HQ, BEF, France, 1940, written in 1980, an account of his work relating to ammunitions supply, May 1940, including an expedition to Dunkirk to unload an ammunitions ship, written in Jun 1940,an account of a reconnaissance expedition to assess the area around La Rochelle and La Pallice as a possible site for a new base for UK forces, Jun 1940, written in 1980, and a conclusion giving Fernyhough's views on the success of the Dunkirk evacuations, May-Jun 1940, written in 1980.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1904; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1924; Lt, 1926; Capt, 1937; Assistant Inspector, Ammunitions Branch, Armaments Inspection Department, 1938-1939; Instructor, Royal Army Ordnance Corps School of Instruction, 1939-1940; Maj, 1940; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, General Headquarters, BEF, France, 1940; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1940-1941; AssistantQuartermaster General and later Colonel, Q Branch, Ordnance Supplies and Ammunition, Washington, 1941-1942; Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, 1942-1943; Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General, 1943-1944; Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, Middle East Land Forces, 1944; Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, Central Ordnances Provision Office, Middle East Land Forces, 1944-1945; Deputy Commandant, Central Ordnance Depot, Donnington, 1945-1949; Lt Col 1948; Deputy Commandant, Central Ordnance Depot, Bicester, 1951-1952; Col, 1952; Commandant, Battalion Ordnance Depot, British Army of the Rhine, 1952; commanded HQ Ammunition Organisation, Eastern Command, 1954-1956; Director, Ammunition and Stores, War Office, 1956-1959; Brig, 1956; retired, 1959; publication of History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1920-1945 (1967); died in 1981.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Fernyhough 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
- French
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mainly English, but some French
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Related materials
Note
Compiled Feb 1997
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.