Key Information
Reference code
ISMAY 4/5/132
Title
Script for Ismay's contribution to a BBC broadcast tribute to Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, [1964]
Date(s)
- [1964] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Ismay's script for BBC broadcast in tribute to the life of Lt Gen Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart relating specifically to his service in Somaliland, 1914 and the incident which resulted in the loss of his eye; his appointment as head of the Military Mission to Poland, 1939 and as personal representative of Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill with Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek. Typescript