Collection GROVES - GROVES, Brig Gen Percy Robert Clifford (1878-1959)

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Key Information

Reference code

GROVES

Title

GROVES, Brig Gen Percy Robert Clifford (1878-1959)

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

(1878-1959)

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... »

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

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Related materials

King's College London, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, holds papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, containing correspondence with Groves, 1933-1948 (Ref: LH 1/336), two reviews by Liddell Hart, from The Daily Telegraph , 25 Jan 1934, ... »

Place access points

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.