Collection PIRIE - PIRIE, ACM Sir George Clark (1896-1980)

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Key Information

Reference code

PIRIE

Title

PIRIE, ACM Sir George Clark (1896-1980)

Date(s)

  • 1918-1978 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Scope and content

Photograph album with 61 photographs of RAF service in Haifa, Palestine, and Baghdad, Iraq, 1917-1918 and 1928. Three notebooks containing extracts from Pirie's diaries, 1923-1945, 1946-1966 and 1967-1976. Eight letters of thanks, relating to Pirie's ... »

System of arrangement

The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above.

General Information

Name of creator

Pirie, Sir George Clark, 1896-1980, Knight, Air Chief Marshal
(1896-1980)

Biographical history

Born 1896; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into 3 (Reserve) Bn, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 1914; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1916; served with Royal Flying Corps, 1916-1918; service with 34 Sqn, Royal Flying Corps, Western Front, 1917; ... »

Repository

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.

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

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Pirie, 1949 (Ref: LH 1/576); notes on talks with Pirie on conscription, defence organisation, plans for a strategic bomber force and the Royal Navy, Mar 1949 (Ref: LH 11/1949/10).

Note

Decorations: KCB, KBE, MC, DFC

Subjects

Place access points

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

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