Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1898-1986 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
33 boxes
Scope and content
Papers of General Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, 1898-1986, including diaries, 1913-1985; memoirs, including drafts; personal and official photographs; personal and official correspondence; press cuttings; issues of the Royal Engineers' journal, 1976-1986 and papers relating to Iffley Church, Royal events, Roberts' time in Canada, ceremonies, dinners and memorials.
System of arrangement
Original order.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 1898; educated, Cheltenham College; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; King's College, Cambridge; commissioned, Royal Engineers, 1917; Deputy Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, India, 1939-1941; General Staff Officer 1, Indian 10 Infantry Division, Iraq, 1941; Commanding Officer, Indian 20 Infantry Brigade, Iraq, 1941; Commanding Officer, 16 Infantry Brigade, Ceylon, 1942; Brigadier General Staff Indian IV Corps, 1943; General Officer Commanding, Indian 23 Infantry Division, Burma, 1943-1945; General Officer Commanding Indian 34 Corps, Malaya, 1945; Vice Adjutant-General, War Office, 1945-1947; General Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland District, 1948-1949; General Officer Commander in Chief, Southern Command, 1949-1952; Quartermaster-General to the Forces, 1952-1955; Aide-de-Camp, General to the Queen, 1952-1955; Colonel Commandant, Corps of the Royal Engineers, 1952-1962; Director, Grosvenor Laing; President, Grosvenor Laing, 1955-1960; died, 1986.
Repository
Custodial history
Received from the family, 1997.
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.
Existence and location of originals
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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)
Archivist's note
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Who's Who