Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1927] (Creation)
- 1911-1923 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 files
Scope and content
Papers relating to his service in India and the Middle East during the period 1907-[1927], dated 1911-1923 and [1927], principally comprising copies of letters to his mother from Ceylon, India and Persia, 1921-1923 and [1927]; brief summary of his military career, 1907-1919, [1919]; photographs of India, 1912, 1921-1922, China, 1911-1913, and Persia, 1916, 1919.
System of arrangement
2 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1887; educated at Eastbourne College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned in Indian Army, 1907, and attached to 89 Royal Irish Fusiliers; appointed to 124 Baluchistan Infantry, 1908, and served in Baluchistan and China; served in Persia with Sir Percy Sykes' Mission and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General to the Forces, Jul 1916;recruiting duty in Kalat State, 1918; Commandant, Sarhad Levy Corps, East Persia, 1919; transferred to Indian Political Department, 1920; Assistant Political Agent, Makran, and Commandant, Makran Levy Corps, 1920-1921; Assistant Commissioner, Dera Ismail Khan and Sub-Divisional Officer, Tank, North West Frontier Province, 1922; HM Vice-Consul, Dizful, Arabistan, Persia, 1923; HM Consul and Political Agent, Muscat, Oman, Arabia, 1923-1924; Assistant Resident in Kashmir and British Joint Commissioner, Ladakh, 1925-1926; Secretary to the Agent to the Governor-General in Central India, 1929-1930; Boundary Settlement Officer in Central India, 1930-1931; Political Agent in Bundelkhand, 1931, Bhopal, 1931-1932, Loralai, 1933-1936, and Raipur, 1936-1938; died in 1982.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre in 1987 from originals loaned by the family.
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 Aug 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.