Collection SUEZ SEMINAR - SUEZ CRISIS, 1956: COMMEMORATIVE SEMINAR, 1996

Key Information

Reference code

SUEZ SEMINAR

Title

SUEZ CRISIS, 1956: COMMEMORATIVE SEMINAR, 1996

Date(s)

  • 1996 (Creation)
  • 1957 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file, 6 audio cassette tapes

Scope and content

Audio recording of the Suez Seminar, held at King's College London, 5 Nov 1996, including three personal accounts of aspects of the Suez campaign, by Maj Gen Denis Arthur Beckett, 2nd in Command, 3 Bn, Parachute Regt in airborne landings, 5 Nov 1956, Maj Gen Nicholas Francis Vaux, 2nd Lt, 45 Commando Royal Marines, 3 Commando Bde, in helicopter-borne amphibious assault, 6 Nov 1956, and Dr Henry Cowper, lecturer in history, Napier University, Edinburgh, who served as a Corporal (on National Service), 1 Bn, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), 19 Infantry Bde in Port Said, Egypt, 14 Nov-22 Dec 1956, with subsequent questions from the audience. Also photocopies of articles relating to Suez, 1956, including detailed account relating to 1 Bn, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), Port Said, Egypt, 1956, from The Thistle, May 1957; 'Anglo-French operations against Port Said, 1956 (Operation MUSKETEER)' by Brig Cyril Nelson Barclay, from the Army Quarterly, 1957; 'Operation MUSKETEER' by Capt Cyril Bentham Falls, from Brassey's Annual, 1957; printed 'Chronology of the Suez crisis, 1956', source unknown [1957].

System of arrangement

1 file, 6 audio cassette tapes

General Information

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the War Studies Department, King's College London, and Dr Henry Cowper, History Department, Napier University, Edinburgh, in 1996.

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.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

The Suez Oral History Project, 1989-1991, consisting of transcripts of interviews with British political, diplomatic and military figures involved at a senior level in the Suez Crisis of 1956; copies of the Protocol of Sèvres, 24 Oct 1956, recording the agreements reached between the governments of the UK, France and Israel during discussions held in France, 22-24 Oct 1956, on a joint politico-military response to Egypt's nationalisation of the Suez Canal.

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Compiled Nov 1999

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

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