Collection STARLING - STARLING, Brig John Geoffrey (1928-1996)

Key Information

Reference code

STARLING

Title

STARLING, Brig John Geoffrey (1928-1996)

Date(s)

  • 1944-1992 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

4 boxes or 0.04m3

Scope and content

Papers relating to the career of Brig John 'Joe' Starling, 1947-1992, including copy of memoir Soldier On! The Testament of a Tom , (Spellmount Ltd., 1992), detailing 45 years of Starling's military career; pamphlets and brochures advertising the ... »

System of arrangement

4 boxes arranged in sections as above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1928-1996)

Biographical history

Born 1928; joined Army 1946; attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1947-1948; 2 Lieutenant, Suffolk Regiment, 1948; served in Middle East and Far East, including Malaya, 1950; School of Infantry, Hythe, 1950; Lieutenant, 1950; Captain, 1 East ... »

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family, July 2006

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

Uploaded finding aid

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Note

Decorations: CBE, MC, DL

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Archivist's note

Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.