Collection SCOTTER - SCOTTER, Gen Sir William Norman Roy (1922-1981)

Key Information

Reference code

SCOTTER

Title

SCOTTER, Gen Sir William Norman Roy (1922-1981)

Date(s)

  • 1953-1981 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

½ box or 0.005 cubic metres

Scope and content

Copies of papers, 1953-1981, including typescript article by Scotter entitled 'Streamlining the Infantry Division', 1953; three typescript articles by Scotter, 'Streamlining the Infantry Division' [1954], 'Tactics in nuclear war' 1955, and 'Unification-... »

System of arrangement

8 files

General Information

Name of creator

(1922-1981)

Biographical history

Born 1922; educated at St Bees School, Cumberland; served in ranks, Scots Guards, 1941-1942; Royal Military Academy, Dehra Dun, India, 1942; commissioned into 7 Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, 1942; temporary Capt, 1943-1944; Lt, 1944; served in Burma, 1944-1... »

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982.

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

Physical Description

This Summary Guide

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Note

Decorations: KCB, OBE, MC

Rules and/or conventions used

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