Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1945-1957 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers relating to role of 6 Guards Tank Brigade in Operation BLUECOAT, Normandy, Jul 1944; operations of 7 Armoured Division, Aug-Nov 1944, including capture of Ghent; 1 Guards Brigade, Feb 1944-May 1945, including Battle of River Po and situation reports, Northern Italy and Southern Austria; pamphlets, 1943-1946 including 21 Army Group reports; campaign maps, including Turkey, 1922-1923; France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, 1944 and Italy and Austria, 1945; working papers for unpublished typescript 'Airborne Forces'. Notes and draft papers of Maj Peter V Verney for Anzio 1944 An Unexpected Fury (Batsford, 1978) and planned publications on Marlborough's wars and 'The Gaiety and the Glory: the Irishman at War'.
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically in sections according to military service. Working papers and drafts for publications are grouped in separate sections, as are the papers of Maj Peter V Verney.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1930; commissioned into the Irish Guards, 1951; service in the UK and British Army of the Rhine, West Germany, 1951-[1960]; Lt, 1953; Capt, 1957; author, 1963-1990. Publications: The standard bearer. The story of Sir Edmund Verney, Knight Marshal to Charles I (Hutchinson, London, 1963); The Micks. The story of the Irish Guards (Peter Davies, London, 1970); The Battle of Blenheim (Batsford, London, 1976); The gardens of Scotland (Batsford, London, 1976); Anzio 1944, an unexpected fury (Batsford, London, 1978); Here comes the circus (Paddington Press, London, 1978); editor of The Batsford book of sporting verse (Batsford, London, 1979); The earthquake handbook (Paddington Press, London, 1979); Homo tyrannicus, a history of man's war against animals (Mills and Boon, London, 1979); The genius of the garden , with Michael Dunne (Webb and Bower, Exeter, Devon, 1989).
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1977 and 1991.
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
Uploaded finding aid
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Decorations: DSO, MVO
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Armoured forces
- Armoured warfare
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Maps
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Bluecoat (1944)
- Organizations
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Verney, Gerald Lloyd, 1900-1957, Major General (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.