Collection MELVILLE - MELVILLE, Col Christian Landale (1913-1984)

Key Information

Reference code

MELVILLE

Title

MELVILLE, Col Christian Landale (1913-1984)

Date(s)

  • [1930]-1945 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file, 1 volume

Scope and content

Papers relating to his military career, [1930]-1945, principally comprising official printed 21 Army Group report on the clearing of Scheldt Estuary, Belgium, Oct-Nov 1944, written in [1944]; typescript copy of article on the Tunisian campaign, 1942-1943, from The Times, 22 May 1943; two silk maps of Western Europe, [1939-1945].

System of arrangement

1 file, 1 volume

General Information

Name of creator

(1913-1984)

Biographical history

Born in 1913; 2nd Lt, Black Watch, 1933; Lt, 1936; Maj, 1946; retired in 1948; died in 1984.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

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.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Jun 1997

Alternative identifier(s)

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

Accession area