Collection MISC27 - BRITISH ARMY: letter of advice on obtaining a commission, 1947

Key Information

Reference code

MISC27

Title

BRITISH ARMY: letter of advice on obtaining a commission, 1947

Date(s)

  • 1947 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 item

Scope and content

Typescript letter from H A M Tyson, Deputy Head, St Paul's School, London, to former pupil Sgt Geoffrey Francis Andrew Best, Royal Army Education Corps, relating to Best seeking a commission in the British Army, 27 Nov 1947.

System of arrangement

single item

General Information

Name of creator

(fl1947)

Biographical history

Geoffrey Francis Andrew Best: born 1928, educated at St Paul's School, London, Trinity College Cambridge (MA, PhD); served in Royal Army Education Corps, 1946-1947; Choate Fellow, Harvard University, 1954-55; Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Asst Lecturer, Cambridge University, 1955-1961; Lecturer, Edinburgh University, 1961-1966; Prof. of History, Edinburgh University, 1966-1974; Prof. of History, University of Sussex, 1974-1985; Senior Associate Member, St Anthony's College, Oxford, 1988-date

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre in 1989 by Professor Geoffrey Best, St Anthony's College, Oxford, via Professor Brian Bond, Department of War Studies, King's College, London

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

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Compiled Nov 1999

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

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