Collection RIALL, AB - RIALL, Air Cdre Arthur Bookey (1911-1984)

Key Information

Reference code

RIALL, AB

Title

RIALL, Air Cdre Arthur Bookey (1911-1984)

Date(s)

  • 1950-1959 (Creation)
  • 1937-1938 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres

Scope and content

Papers relating to the RAF Levies (Iraq), 1955-1959, including typescript copy of speech by Sir Michael (Robert) Wright, British Ambassador to Iraq at the RAF Levies (Iraq) disbandment parade, RAF Habbaniya, 2 May 1955; typescript copy of report to the ... »

System of arrangement

The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1911-1984)

Biographical history

Born 1911; educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regt, 1932; service in India, 1932-1939; Lt, 1935; Instructor, Small Arms School, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Capt, 1940; ... »

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in three accessions in 1985, 1993 and 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

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›

Related materials

The Centre also holds the papers of Riall's father, Maj Malcolm Brown Bookey Riall (1879-1968) (Ref: Riall, M B B).

Note

Decorations: CBE

Rules and/or conventions used

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