Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1916-1945 (Creation)
- 1898-1900 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
0.08 cubic metres (8 boxes)
Scope and content
Papers, 1898-1900, 1916-1945, of Brig Gen Percy Robert Clifford Groves, mainly comprising material on the development of aviation policy and the evolution of the Royal Air Force in the interwar period, and also including material on the Royal Flying ... »
System of arrangement
The papers are arranged in six sections: Boer War diary; papers relating to the Royal Flying Corps; 'Air Papers'; minutes of Committee of Enquiry on Air League, 1926-1927; writings; private papers, news cuttings, etc.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1878; educated at Bedford; commissioned into the King's (Shropshire Light Infantry), 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Railway Staff Officer, South Africa [1900]; Lt, 1901; service with West African Regt, 1903-1904; Capt, 190... »
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Groves' family in 1976.
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
- French
Uploaded finding aid
Related materials
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Groves, Percy Robert Clifford, 1878-1959, Brigadier General (Subject)
- Air League of Great Britain (Subject)
- Inter Allied Aeronautical Commission of Control (Subject)
- RAF, Royal Air Force (Subject)
- Royal Flying Corps (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 Iain Mutch; revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.