Collection MCLEOD - MCLEOD, Gen Sir Roderick William (1905-1980)

Key Information

Reference code

MCLEOD

Title

MCLEOD, Gen Sir Roderick William (1905-1980)

Date(s)

  • 1944-1962 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Scope and content

Papers relating to operations of the Special Air Service (SAS) in France during World War Two and to its formation, 1944-1948; papers relating to the future role of the SAS following operations in Northern Europe, World War Two, 1945-1958; papers ... »

System of arrangement

Arranged chronologically into discrete sections as above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1905-1980)

Biographical history

Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1925; service in Khajuri Plains operations, North West Frontier, India, 1930-1932; E Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, India, 1932; Staff ... »

Custodial history

Placed in the Centre by Gen Sir Roderick McLeod in 1979.

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 and detailed catalogue.

Note

Compiled Oct 1999

Place access points

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.