
Key Information
Reference code
Title
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
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 ... »
Repository
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
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Civil defence
- Defence
- Diplomacy
- Foreign relations
- Higher science education
- Humanitarian law
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military education
- Military engineering
- Military missions
- Military organizations
- Military strategy
- Occupied territories
- Organizations
- Photographs
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
People and Organisations
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945, Chancellor of Germany (Subject)
- Slim, William Joseph, 1891-1970, 1st Viscount Slim, Field Marshal (Subject)
- Allied Control Commission (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- Japanese Army (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.