Collection LETHBRIDGE - LETHBRIDGE, Maj Gen John Sydney (1897-1961)

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Key Information

Reference code

LETHBRIDGE

Title

LETHBRIDGE, Maj Gen John Sydney (1897-1961)

Date(s)

  • 1939-1961 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

5 boxes or 0.05 cubic metres

Scope and content

Papers chiefly related to Lethbridge's service in the Second World War, 1943-1948 and the Control Commission, 1945-1948. Typescript report, photographs, glass photographic slides and correspondence relating to 220 Lethbridge Mission to the USA, India, ... »

System of arrangement

The collection is arranged in the following sections: 220 Mission, Burma, Control Commission, Civil Defence Staff College, Civil Defence (general) and obituaries.

General Information

Name of creator

(1897-1961)

Biographical history

Born 1897; educated at Gresham's School, Uppingham, Leicestershire, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and Jesus College, Cambridge; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, 1915; service with 123 Field ... »

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1996.

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.

Note

Compiled Jun 1999

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.