Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1943-[1978] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
5 boxes (0.05 cubic metres)
Scope and content
Papers of Col Cyril Morgan, 1943-[1978],comprising flying log books, 1943-1949; letters home from India, 1945-1947; correspondence and typescript reports relating to service in the Cameroons, the Belgian Congo [1962-1964] and Jamaica, 1968; typescript memoirs, with Curriculum Vitae [1978]; training manuals; printed Ordnance Survey maps of the UK [1965-1972]; printed Iranian pro-Shah propaganda material [1967].
System of arrangement
The papers are arranged in sections as outlined above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1924; joined the Army and trained at the Army Apprentice College, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service with the Glider Pilot Regt, 1943-1949; served at Arnhem, the Netherlands, Operation MARKET GARDEN, Sep 1944; service in India and Palestine, 1945-1949; commissioned into the South Wales Borderers, 1951; served in British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, Eritrea and Malaya, 1951-1957; Capt, 1952; student at Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1957; Headquarters, British Corps, Germany, 1957-1959; Maj, 1959; seconded to Nigerian Army, 1959; served in operations in the Cameroons [1961] and with UN Forces, Belgian Congo [1962-1964]; Staff Officer, UK [1964-1965]; Lt Col, 1965; Commanding Officer, Infantry Training Depot, UK, from 1965; commanded British Army Training Team, Jamaica, 1968; Col, 1969; Commandant, Non Commissioned Officer's Wing, School of Infantry, Warminster, Wiltshire, 1969-1972; retired 1974; died 1993.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1995.
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
Existence and location of originals
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Place access points
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Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.