Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1939-1946 (Creation)
- 1901-1903 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
5 boxes or 0.05 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers relating to British produced propaganda for the Indian Army, produced to counter Japanese propaganda aimed to entice Indian Army personnel to desert and fight for the Japanese led Indian National Army, India and Burma, 1943-1945, including correspondence, memoranda, personal papers and propaganda material, 1939-1946. Also, scrapbook album of watercolours, sketches, photographs, menus, invitations and autographs, created 1901-1903 by Beryl White (1877-1954) relating to her life in Sikkim, northern India.
System of arrangement
The papers are arranged in sections as outlined above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1907; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, Dec 1941; service in Indian Army, 1943-1945; Maj, 1944; demobilised [1947]; Chairman and Managing Director, Carrier Engineering Company Limited, 1979; died 1986.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1991.
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
Script of material
Uploaded finding aid
Related materials
Note
Compiled Jun 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Colonial forces
- Colonialism
- Communication process
- Fine arts
- Imperialism
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Liberation movements
- Military organizations
- Nationalism
- Organizations
- Painting
- Paintings
- Persuasion
- Political doctrines
- Political movements
- Propaganda
- State security
- War
- War propaganda
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
- Indian Army (Subject)
- Indian National Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.