Collection TURNER CAIN - TURNER CAIN, Maj Gen George Robert (1912-1996)

Key Information

Reference code

TURNER CAIN

Title

TURNER CAIN, Maj Gen George Robert (1912-1996)

Date(s)

  • 1992 (Creation)
  • 1944-1946 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Scope and content

Typescript memoir, written in 1992, as Commanding Officer, 1 Bn, Herefordshire Regt, 11 Armoured Div, 21 Army Group, North West Europe, 1944-1945, entitled '1st Bn The Herefordshire Regiment route and battles from the Normandy bridgehead to the R Elbe in ... »

System of arrangement

1 volume, 2 files.

General Information

Name of creator

(1912-1996)

Biographical history

Born 1912; educated at Norwich School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the Norfolk Regt, 1932; served with 1 Bn, Royal Norfolk Regt, India, 1933-1938; Lt, 1935; Waziristan campaign, North West Frontier, India, 1937; service in ... »

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by Turner Cain in 1992.

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

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Note

Decorations: CB, CBE, DSO

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

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