Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1940-1960 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
3 files or 0.01m3
Scope and content
Copies of the papers of Brig William Fraser, 1940-1960, relating to command of Stratforce, assembled to occupy western Norway, 1940, including: personal diary, 6 Apr 1940- 10 Jun 1940; memoir, 'Norwegian Adventure', including detailed descriptions of the ... »
System of arrangement
3 files as in Scope and Content.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1890; educated Charterhouse and Sandhurst; served with the Gordon Highlanders in India and Egypt; served in World War One; transferred to Grenadier Guards, 1927; military attaché, Brussels, Belgium and The Hague, Netherlands, 1931-1935; commander, 1 ... »
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family, Aug 1985.
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.
Existence and location of originals
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
Note
Decorations: DSO, MC.
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965, Knight, statesman (Subject)
- Ironside, William Edmund, 1880-1959, 1st Baron Ironside of Archangel and of Ironside, Field Marshal (Subject)
- Scots Guards (Subject)
- Stratforce (Subject)
- Auchinleck, Sir Claude John Eyre, 1884-1981, Knight, Field Marshal (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Archivist's note
Compiled by Katharine Higgon.