Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1918-1920 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 volumes
Scope and content
Two annotated narrative diaries, 1918-1920, entitled 'Diary of 1st French Army operations, Apr to Aug 1918' and 'British Military Mission to South Russia. Diary of my journey, from Dec 1919 to May 1920'.
System of arrangement
2 volumes
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1880; educated at Radley College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Artillery, 1900; seconded for service with the Punjab Frontier Force, India, 1902-1911; Capt, 1911; graduated from Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; posted to General Staff, 1914; Maj, 1915; awarded DSO, 1916; GeneralStaff Officer 1, British Mission, Belgian General Headquarters, Western Front, 1917; General Staff Officer 1, General Headquarters, France, 1917-1918; Brevet Lt Col, 1918; General Staff Officer 1 in charge of British Mission to 1 French Army, 1918; General Staff Officer 1, Supreme War Council, Versailles, 1918-1919; British Representative, Allied Mission, Enemy Delegations, Paris, 1919; service in South Russia as General Staff Officer 1, British Mission to White Russian Gen Anton Ivanovich Denikin, 1919-1920; accompanied French operations in the Rif Mountains, Morocco, 1926; Lt Col, 1927; retired 1931; member of HM's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps ofGentlemen-at-Arms, 1932-1950; died 1971.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1980.
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
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Compiled Sep 1998
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Civil war
- Diaries
- Diplomacy
- Documents
- Foreign relations
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military missions
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Political movements
- Primary documents
- Prose
- Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
- State security
- War
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- French Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.