Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1945 (Creation)
- [1944] (Creation)
- 1918 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to his military career, 1918, 1939-1945, dated 1918, [1944]-1945, comprising typescript copy ofdespatch from Col St Aubyn concerning the award of the MC to Fryer, 1918; letter from Wg Cdr G C O'Donnell to Sir Hereward Wake,14th Bt, providing a summary of Fryer's career, 1942-1944, for The King's Royal Rifle Corps Regimental Journal, written in 1945; text,possibly draft of obituary, giving details of Fryer's career, 1939-1944, written in [1944].
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Served in World War One with King's Royal Rifle Corps; 2nd Lt, 1915; Lt, 1917; Adjutant, 1918-1919;Adjutant, 2 Bn (Queen Victoria's Rifles), 1939; ADC to General Officer Commanding, Northern Command, 1942; attached to Glider PilotRegt and commanded 2 Army Glider Pilot Training Section, RAF Station, Booker, 1942-1944; posted to Parachute Bn Depot, Hardwick,1943; began glider flying course, RAF Station, Stoke Orchard, Jun 1944, but severely injured in crash landing and died on 14 Jul 1944.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1984.
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
Compiled Feb 1997
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People and Organisations
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Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.