Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1982-1996 (Creation)
- 1922-1941 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 boxes (0.2 cubic metres)
Scope and content
Correspondence and papers of Sqn Ldr Anthony Thorburn Irvine, 1922-1941, including; letters to his parents from Eton and Oxford, 1922-1935; letters to his parents from flying training, Yorkshire, 1935; letters to his parents from RAF Amman, Transjordan, 1... »
System of arrangement
The files are arranged chronologically, as described in scope and content.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1914; educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford; joined RAF, 1936; service with 211 Sqn, UK and Egypt, 1937-1938; on staff, RAF Headquarters, Amman, Transjordan, 1938; service with 14 Sqn, Ismailia, Egypt, 1938; service with 14 Sqn at ... »
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 2002.
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
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Irvine, Anthony Thorburn, 1914-1941, Squadron Leader (Subject)
- Athill, Diana, b 1917, publisher and author (Subject)
- Irvine, James, b 1941, son of Sqn Ldr A T Irvine (Subject)
- Irvine, Katherine, wife of Sqn Ldr A T Irvine (Subject)
- Eton College, public school (Subject)
- RAF, Royal Air Force (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Archivist's note
Compiled by Kate O'Brien