Collection SMITH, RC - SMITH, Capt Ralph C

Key Information

Reference code

SMITH, RC

Title

SMITH, Capt Ralph C

Date(s)

  • 1915-1917 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

2 files

Scope and content

Copy of typescript diary of his service on the Western Front, 1915-1917, notably in the second Battle of Ypres, Apr 1915, the Battle of the Somme, Aug-Sep 1916, and the Battle of Arras, Apr 1917.

System of arrangement

single item

General Information

Name of creator

(1915-1917)

Biographical history

Served with Northumbrian (County of Durham) (Howitzer) Bde, France and Belgium, 1915-1917.

Custodial history

Copies made by the Centre in 1981 from originals loaned by the family.

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.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Jul 1997

Alternative identifier(s)

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