Key Information
Reference code
GATHORNE-HARDY 3/1/1-20
Title
Press cuttings relating to Gathorne-Hardy's career, 1933-1937
Date(s)
- 1933 Apr 26 - 1937 Sep 9 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Newspaper cuttings relating to various, notably Gathorne-Hardy's promotion to Commander in Chief, Aldershot Command; a letter to The Times by H R Headlam, disputing a suggestion that senior officers should be retired to make way for younger men; general events during his command at Aldershot, including the Aldershot Command Administrative Exercise, Aug 1937, and army manoeuvres at Audley End, Essex, attended by French Gen Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Chief of the French General Staff, Sep 1937; Gathorne-Hardy's retirement in 1937.