Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1980]-1981 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Notes on his war experiences, primarily concerning living conditions during his service in the trenches in France and Belgium, 1914-1918, but with occasional reference to his service in Burma, [1943-1945], written at the request of an American researcher in [1980-1981], with covering letter to the Centre, 1981.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1897; educated at Northampton School; joined 7 Bn Northamptonshire Regt as a volunteer, Sep 1914; served with Northamptonshire Regt and Lancashire Fusiliers in France and Belgium, 1915-1918; Lt, 1918; joined Indian Army, 1918; Capt, 1922; Bde Maj, Wana, North West Frontier, India, 1932-1936; Maj, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 1935; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Rawalpindi District, 1939; General Staff Officer Grade 1, India, 1941; Lt Col, 1943; served in Burma, [1943-1945]; Col, 1946; Maj Gen, 1947; retired, 1957; died in 1989.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Greeves in 1981.
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 Aug 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.