Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1981 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Photocopy of 'From carriage to Concorde', typescript memoir covering his life and career, 1917-1981, notably his military service in Gibraltar and India, 1930-[1932], in the UK, 1940-1943, and in India, 1943-1945, including an account of the explosion of the US ammunition ship FORT STIKINE, Bombay, Apr 1944, his work for the Abbey Road Building Society, [1932-1934], asa salesman, 1936-1940, and in the brewing industry, 1945-1960, written in 1981.
System of arrangement
Single item
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1909; gazetted to Supplementary Reserve commission, Queen's Royal Regt, 1928; commissioned into North Staffordshire Regt, 1930; served briefly in Gibraltar and India before resigning in [1932]; worked for the Abbey Road Building Society, [1932-1934]; salesman, Coca Cola Company, 1936-1937, and H P Bulmer and Company Limited, 1937-1940; commissioned intoSouth Staffordshire Regt, 1940; served in UK, 1940-1943, and India, 1943-1945; worked for various brewers, 1945-1960, notably Bulmers and Taylor Walker and Company; died in 1984.
Repository
Custodial history
Copy made by the Centre in 1995 from original loaned by the family.
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 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Colonial administration
- Colonial countries
- Colonial forces
- Colonialism
- Imperialism
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Political doctrines
- Political systems
- Ships
- State security
- Vehicles
- War
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
- Fort Stikine, US ammunition ship (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.