Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1940-1941 (Creation)
- 1914-1919 (Creation)
- 1909-1912 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
3 files
Scope and content
Copies of photographs relating to his service with the Royal Artillery in India, 1909-1912, and in France and Belgium, 1914-1919; photographs and press cuttings relating to Norton's service as Acting Governor, Hong Kong, 1940-1941.
System of arrangement
3 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1884; joined Royal Artillery, 1902; served in India, [1909-1912]; served in France and Belgium, 1914-1919; Bde Maj, France, 1915; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, France, 1915-1917; member of Mount Everest expedition, 1922; Bde Maj, Turkey, 1922-1923; leader, Mount Everest expedition, 1924; publication of The fight for Everest, 1924 (E Arnold and Co, London, 1925); General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office, 1926-1928; Instructor, Staff College, Quetta, 1929-1932; Commander, Royal Artillery, 1 Div, Aldershot, 1932-1934; Brig, General Staff, Aldershot Command, 1934-1938; ADC to King George VI, 1937-1938; Commander, Madras District, India, 1938-1940; Acting Governor, Hong Kong, 1940-1941; commanded Western (Independent) District, India; retired pay, 1942; Col Commandant, Royal Horse Artillery, 1947-1951; died in 1954.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1994.
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.
Note
Decorations: CB, DSO, MC
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Communications media
- Armed forces
- Artillery
- Colonial countries
- Diplomacy
- Foreign relations
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military equipment
- Military organizations
- Newspapers
- Organizations
- Periodicals
- Photographs
- Political systems
- Publications
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Weapons
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
- Information sciences
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.