Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 2001 (Creation)
- 1994 (Creation)
- 1974 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
5 files or 0.01m3
Scope and content
Papers of Lt Col Richard Morris relating to his service with 16/5 Queen's Royal Lancers, Cyprus, 1974, including: daily situation reports to UNFICYP (United Nations Force in Cyprus) Headquarters; official war diary for A Sqn, 16/5 Queen's Royal Lancers, Cyprus, 15 Jul-16 Sep 1974; copies of The Lancer , regimental magazine, Aug 1974 and Sep 1974; copy of Battle , Sep 1974, including article on British bases in Cyprus; copy of Soldier , Sep 1974, including article on Cyprus evacuation; correspondence, 1994, regarding events in Cyprus, 1974; 'Eyewitness: the Nicosia airport incident of 1974; a peacekeeping gamble', by Francis Henn, International Peacekeeping , Spring 1994, with detailed annotations by Richard Morris; obituary for Richard Morris, from The Vedette , the regimental magazine of the Queen's Royal Lancers, Spring 2001.
System of arrangement
As above in Scope and Content.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1931; graduated from Sandhurst, 1952; commissioned into 3 Hussars as 2 Lieutenant, 1952; Lieutenant, 1954; seconded to Federation Armoured Car Regiment, Special Military Forces, Malaya, 1955; Captain, 1958; joined 16/5 Queen's Royal Lancers, 1958; Major, 1965; Lieutenant Colonel, 1973; posted to Cyprus, 1974; retired c 1985; Commander, Devon and Cornwall Training Area; died, 2000.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family, July 2001
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.
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Morris, Richard Quintin Mull, 1931-2000, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- Queen's Royal Lancers (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon