Collection SCOTT - SCOTT, Lt Col Kenneth Farish (1918-2007)

Key Information

Reference code

SCOTT

Title

SCOTT, Lt Col Kenneth Farish (1918-2007)

Date(s)

  • 1993 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

The attack on the Asopos Viaduct in German occupied Greece', May-Jun 1943, written in 1993.

System of arrangement

single item

General Information

Name of creator

(1918-2007)

Biographical history

Born in 1918; educated at Stockton Grammar School and Constantine Technical College; served with Royal Engineers, 1939-1946; engineer in charge of demolition during the SOE attack on the Asopos Viaduct, Greece, May-Jun 1943; joined Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, 1946; Resident Engineer, Hydro-Electric Works, Scotland, 1946-1952; Chief Representative, New Zealand, 1952-1955, and Scotland, 1955-1959; Partner, 1959, and Senior Partner, 1977; responsible for design and supervision of construction of various major water resource development projects, maritime works and international airports.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by Scott in 1993.

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

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

The papers of Brig Edmund Charles Wolf Myers contain additional reports by Scott on the attack, dated 1943 and [1944] (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Myers 16).

Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: MC

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)

Accession area