Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1975 (Creation)
- 1966 (Creation)
- 1915-1948 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Scope and content
Copies of typescript Indian Corps Intelligence Summaries, France, Aug 1915, and typescript account in French entitled 'Quelques faits importants de la Guerre par rapport a Merville', 1919. Papers relating to Sanderson's military intelligence work, 1940-1945, including typescript intelligence reports and summaries relating to the likely invasion of UK, 1940-1941, notably typescript Southern Command memorandum entitled 'Enemy craft likely to be used in invasion of UK and their employment', Jan 1941; typescript translations of German directives on the planned invasion of the UK, Operation SEELÖWE, 1940, taken from documents captured by the Allies in 1945; typescript copies, with translations, of Adolf Hitler's last will and his private and political testament, dated 29 Apr 1945. Printed volume, 'Notes on German preparation for invasion of the UK', prepared by General Staff, War Office, and issued to officers of MI14, Apr 1941. Printed volume in German entitled Informationsheft GB, produced by the Germans in World War Two as a manual on British life, customs, Government and administration [1940].
System of arrangement
2 volumes, 4 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
served in World War One, 1914-1918; joined the Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army, as Lt, 1937; service with 30 (Surrey) Anti-Aircraft Bn, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; attended Staff College courses, Camberley and Minley, 1939-1940; General Staff Officer 3, MI3 (German Section), War Office, 1940; Capt, 1940; General Staff Officer 3 and 2, MI14, War Office, 1940; Maj, 1941; General Staff Officer 1, Head of Intelligence Section (Operations), Offices of War Cabinet, 1942-1944; Lt Col, 1942; General Staff Officer 1, Head of MI17, War Office, 1944; , Headquarters Control Commission, 1944; General Staff Officer 1, Head of Joint Intelligence Co-ordination Section and Chief Staff Officer to Maj Gen (Intelligence), Headquarters Control Commission for Germany, 1944-1945; Col, General Staff, 1945.
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre from originals lent by Sanderson in 1980. The originals of Informationsheft GB [1940] and 'Notes on German preparation for the invasion of the UK' were presented to the Centre by Sanderson in 1980.
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
- French
- German
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Decorations: OBE, TD
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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.