Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1963 (Creation)
- 1944-1945 (Creation)
- 1930 (Creation)
- [1915-1920] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Papers and photographs relating to his life and career, [1915]-1944, dated [1915-1920], 1930, 1944-1945 and 1963, principally comprising newspaper cuttings concerning his air crash in Burma, 1944, and letters of condolence to his wife, 1944.
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1901; educated at St George's School, Harpenden and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; joined 3 Gurkha Rifles, [1923]; employed in Royal West African Frontier Force, 1928-1934; Staff Officer, Training Directorate, General HQ, India Command,1939; Instructor, Staff College, Quetta, 1940-1941; Bde Maj, Nowshera Bde, India, 1941-1942; worked in OperationsDirectorate, General HQ, India Command, 1942-1943, where he was closely involved in planning of Gen Orde Charles Wingate's first Chindit operation in Burma, 1943; Senior Administrative Assistant to Wingate, Special Force (Chindit) HQ, India Command, 1943-1944; killed in air crash, Burma, May 1944.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1987.
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. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.
Note
Compiled Mar 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military organizations
- Newspapers
- Nonbook materials
- Organizations
- Periodicals
- Publications
- Special forces
- State security
- War
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Communications media
- Wars (events)
- Information sciences
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
- Indian Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.