Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1914-1945 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Scope and content
Copies of papers and negatives of photographs relating to his career, 1914-1945, including printed copy of message to officers, non-commissioned officers and men of 8 Corps from Lt Gen Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Battle of the Somme, 4 Jul 1916; typescript ... »
System of arrangement
3 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1891; educated at Downside and Trinity College, Cambridge; commissioned into Royal Dublin Fusiliers (Special Reserve), 1914; served in World War One with Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 1914-1918; service on Western Front, including Second Battle of Ypres, 1... »
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre from originals lent by the family in 1981.
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
- Italian
Language and script notes
English, some Italian and German.
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 ›
Related materials
Note
Compiled Sep 1998
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Humanitarian law
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Liberation movements
- Medical sciences
- Military engineering
- Military intelligence
- Military medicine
- Military organizations
- Occupied territories
- Organizations
- Peace
- Political movements
- State security
- Surgery
- War
- Warfare
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1891-1969, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Field Marshal (Subject)
- Dicks, Henry Victor, fl 1941-1993, Colonel, psychiatrist (Subject)
- Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea, 1883-1945, Italian Prime Minister and dictator (Subject)
- Weston, Sir Aylmer, Hunter-, 1864-1940, Knight, Lieutenant General (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- German Army (Subject)
- Italian Army (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.