Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1966 (Creation)
- 1945-1947 (Creation)
- 1940-1941 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers relating to his service in Germany, 1945-1947, principally comprising British Zone Review vol 1 no 7, published by the Control Commission for Germany, (British Element), Dec 1945; Royal Rupert Times and Garrison News, edited by Hart, Feb 1947; photographs of Belsen concentration camp, 1945. Papers relating to Hart's work as Recreational Libraries Officer, 1966, notably an article on Hart and the RN Library Service cut from Navy News no 141, Mar 1966. Beating the invader and If the invader comes, two printed leaflets advising civilians how they should behave in the event of a German invasion, issued by Ministry of Information, 1940-1941.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1903; served in World War Two on HMS FISHGUARD, 44 Escort Group, Western Approaches; served with Fleet Air Arm, [1943-1945]; Educational Officer, HMS ROYAL RUPERT, Germany, 1945-1947; Recreational Libraries Officer, 1952-[1966]; died in 1987.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1987.
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 Feb 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Civil defence
- Concentration camps
- Defence
- East West relations
- Humanitarian law
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military organizations
- Occupied territories
- Organizations
- State security
- War
- War crimes
- Western Europe
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
- Europe
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Allied Control Commission (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.