Collection NEWMAN - NEWMAN, Wg Cdr Leslie William James (1912-1995)

Key Information

Reference code

NEWMAN

Title

NEWMAN, Wg Cdr Leslie William James (1912-1995)

Date(s)

  • 1989 (Creation)
  • 1985 (Creation)
  • 1945 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Copy of photograph album concerning his work on Operation BACKFIRE (the employment of captured military personnel to demonstrate the assembly and firing of V2 rockets), 1945, with copies of related newspaper cuttings, 1945, 1985, 1989.

System of arrangement

1 file

General Information

Name of creator

(1912-1995)

Biographical history

Born in 1912; worked on Operation BACKFIRE (the employment of captured military personnel to demonstrate the assembly and firing of V2 rockets), Cuxhaven, Germany, 1945; died in 1995.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1996.

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.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Nov 1996

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

Accession area