Key Information
Reference code
Title
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
Biographical history
Born in 1913; 2nd Lt, Black Watch, 1933; Lt, 1936; Maj, 1946; retired in 1948; died in 1984.
Repository
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.
Note
Compiled Jun 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Melville, Christian Landale, 1913-1984, Colonel (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.