Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1942-1958 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
8 boxes or 0.08 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers including appreciations, reports and battle instructions relating to operations of 20 Indian Division in Burma including the Kabaw Valley and Kyaukchaw, Apr 1942-Mar 1944; Shenam and Kalewa, Apr-Dec 1944; Monywa and the Irrawaddy, including the capture of Kyaukse, Jan-Aug 1945. Papers including reports and operational orders relating to operations of 20 Indian Division in French Indo-China, Aug 1945-May 1947. Typescripts of and related papers for unpublished history of 20 Indian Division, 1944-1958 including accounts of operations of particular units. Translations of Japanese documents on operations in Burma, 1941-1945, including summaries of operations by particular units and war diary of Japanese 15 Army, 1943-1945. Copies of South-East Asia Translation and Interrogation Center Historical Bulletin (Jul 1946-May 1947) including history of particular units of Japanese Army.
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically within sections according to military service in Ceylon, Burma and Indo-China, apart from papers relating to the unpublished history of 20 Indian Division, translations of Japanese documents on operations in Burma, and copies of South-East Asia Translation and Interrogation Center Historical Bulletin, which have been grouped together.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1894; educated at Blundells School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the Indian Army as 2nd Lt, 1914; service in France with 2 Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1915; service in Iraq, Palestine, Syria and Egypt with 1 Gurkha Rifles, 1916-1920; instructor, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1925-1927; student at Staff College, Quetta, India, 1928- 1929; General Staff Officer Grade 2, General HQ, India, 1930-1934; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Western Command, 1936-1937; Brigadier General Staff, Western Command, 1938; commandant, Queen Alexander's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1939-1940; served on North West Frontier, India, 1939; assistant commandant, Staff College, Quetta and appointed Col, 1940-1941; commander of 17 Indian Infantry Brigade and service in Iraq and Syria, 1941-1942; commander of 20 Indian Division, 1942-1946; commander of Allied Land Forces, French Indo-China, 1945-1946; officiating General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India, 1946; commander of 1 Indian Corps, 1946-1947; Chief of Staff, Pakistan Army, 1947-1948; Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army, 1948-1951; retired in 1960; Chairman of Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, Putney, London, 1960-1964; died in 1964.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1978.
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 and detailed catalogue.
Related materials
Note
Compiled Jun 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- War
- War diaries
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
- South Asia, India
- South East Asia, Indo-China
- South East Asia, Myanmar, river, Irrawaddy
- South East Asia, Myanmar, Kabaw valley
- South East Asia, Myanmar, Sagaing, Kalewa
- South East Asia, Myanmar, Kyaukchaw
- South East Asia, Myanmar, Kyauske
- South East Asia, Myanmar, Sagaing, Monywa
- South East Asia, Myanmar, Shenam
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
- Indian Army (Subject)
- Japanese Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.