Key Information
Reference code
LIDDELL HART 15/14/9
Title
Bound volume of copy letters from Field Marshal Lord Ironside to Macleod, 1919-1960
Date(s)
- 1919 - 1960 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Bound copies of letters, 'Ironside's letters to Col R Macleod', relating to FM (William) Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside of Archangel and Ironside's career 1921-1959 including opinions on mechanisation, German Army manoeuvres 1937, appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sep 1939, reflections on World War Two and post-war correspondence with copies of reports on Lord Ironside by superior officers including King George V, Gen Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson of Trent, FM William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes, FM Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1919-1934. 1 vol
General Information
Name of creator
(1891-1984)