Collection TALBOT - TALBOT, Maj Gen Dennis Edmund Blaquière (1908-1994)

Key Information

Reference code

TALBOT

Title

TALBOT, Maj Gen Dennis Edmund Blaquière (1908-1994)

Date(s)

  • 1929-1992 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

7 boxes (0.07 cubic meters)

Scope and content

Papers, maps, publications, photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to Maj Gen Dennis Edmund Blaquière Talbot's life and career, 1929-1992, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, India, 1929-1930. Papers relating to Talbot's service as Bde Maj, 30 ... »

System of arrangement

The papers were initially sorted by Talbot's family. A summary list of the papers was produced at the time of deposit in 1996, and a detailed catalogue was produced in 2006. Much of the material fell naturally in discrete, chronological sections, and was ... »

General Information

Name of creator

(1908-1994)

Biographical history

Born 1908; educated at Tonbridge School, Kent, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, 1928; service in India, 1928-1937; Lt, 1931; Adjutant, 1 Bn, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt, India,... »

Custodial history

Placed in the Centre by the family 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
  • Malay

Language and script notes

Mainly English, some Malay

Finding aids

This collection level description and detailed catalogue.

Note

Decorations: MC, DSO, CBE, CB

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

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