Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1983] (Creation)
- 1942-1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers, mostly photocopies, relating to Operation FRESHMAN, an abortive British-Norwegian assault on a heavy water plant at Vemork, Norway, Nov 1942, written in 1942-1945 and [1983], notably operation orders, Nov 1942; letter to Maj Pardon, dated Jul 1945... »
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1906; educated at Marlborough College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and King's College, Cambridge; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1926; Lt, 1927; served in India, 1928-1934, including Mohmand Campaign, 1933; Capt, 1936; served in UK, 1937-... »
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1992.
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
- German
Language and script notes
Mostly English, but some German (with English translation)
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Compiled Mar 1997
Subjects
- Aircraft
- Amphibious warfare
- Armed forces
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Freshman (1942)
- Organizations
- Special forces
- State security
- Vehicles
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Pardon, fl 1945, Major (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.