Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1947-1953] (Creation)
- [1932]-1933 (Creation)
- 1928-1929 (Creation)
- 1926 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
Scope and content
Copies of papers relating to his service in Burma, 1926, 1928-1929, [1932]-1933, [1947-1953], principally comprising official report on the military phase of Hwekum Column operations, Burma, 15-20 Feb 1926, written by [Moore]; 'Report on the Naga Hills (Upper Chindwin) expedition for the abolition of human sacrifice', Jan- Mar 1928, written by H J Mitchell, Assistant Superintendent, Burma Frontier Service, printed by the Government of Burma, 1928, and including a report by Moore as Officer Commanding Military Police, Naga Hills Expedition; 'Report on the Naga Hills (Upper Chindwin) expedition for the release of slaves and the suppression of human sacrificing', 1929-1929, written by Mitchell and printed by the Government of Burma, 1929; typescript notes on the Burma Rebellion, 1930-1932, written by Moore for officers of the Chin Hills Bn, [1932]; typescript 'History of the Chin Hills Bn (The Burma Regt)', 1894-1933, written by Moore in 1933; typescript history of the Chin Hills Bn, 1942-1947, written by [Moore], c 1950.
System of arrangement
6 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1898; commissioned into Indian Army, 1916; served with 4th Bn (Prince of Wales's Own), 8 Punjab Regt; Assistant Commandant, Chin Hills Bn (later 3 Chin Rifles), Burma Frontier Force, 1925-1929; Officer Commanding Military Police, Naga Hills Expedition, 1928; Commandant, Chin Hills Bn, 1932-1934, 1937-1942; Maj, 1934; died in 1983.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1984.
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
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Compiled Jul 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Colonial administration
- Colonial conflicts
- Colonial countries
- Colonialism
- Cultural anthropology
- Cultural heritage
- Customs and traditions
- Field work
- Imperialism
- International relations
- Law enforcement
- Military organizations
- Military police
- Organizations
- Police
- Political doctrines
- Political systems
- Research work
- Rites
- Scientific expeditions
- State security
- Social control, formal
- Sociology
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Mitchell, H J, fl 1928, colonial administrator (Subject)
- 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.