Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1982-1988] (Creation)
- 1955 (Creation)
- [1940-1945] (Creation)
- [1931-1932] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copies of extracts from 'Wells, a family history', produced by Tessa J Harfield, 1988, principally comprising a brief account of the life and RAF career of Sidney McLeod Wells (Wg Cdr Maurice Clunes Wells' brother), 1906-1941, written by Harfield in 1988; transcription of Brig (then Lt) Brian Gordon Wells' account of a big game hunt in Northern Rhodesia, 1931, written in [1931-1932], with his record of service, 1923-1955, dated 1955; transcription of 'My career in the RAF, 1935-1950' written by Wg Cdr Maurice Clunes Wells, written in [1980-1985]. Original manuscript of 'My career in the RAF, 1935-1950'. Photographs relating to Wg Cdr Maurice Clunes Wells' army career, dated [1940-1945] and [1980-1988], notably his internment as a POW, [1940-1945].
System of arrangement
1 file.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1912; joined RAF in 1935; No 15 Sqn, RAF Abingdon, 1935-1938; Flying Officer, 1938; 103 Sqn, 1938; took part in bombing raids in North West Europe, 1939-1940; captured by Germans and held as POW in Germany, 1940-1945; Commanding Officer, 213 Fighter Sqn, Cyprus, 1946-1947; Movements Department, HQ Middle East, 1947; Senior Administration Officer, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1947-1949; Senior Administrative Officer, RAF Duxford; retired from RAF, 1950, and started a career in farming; died in 1992.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1994.
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
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Lt Brian Gordon Wells' account of big game hunting in Northern Rhodesia, 1931, is held in the Royal Artillery Institution (Ref: MD 1947).
Related materials
Note
Compiled Nov 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Air warfare
- Armed forces
- Cultural heritage
- Customs and traditions
- Documents
- Hunting
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Memoirs
- Military engineering
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Photographs
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- War prisoners
- War victims
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Harfield, Tessa J, fl 1988 (Subject)
- Wells, Brian Gordon, b 1902, Brigadier (Subject)
- Wells, Sidney McLeod, 1906-1941, Royal Air Force officer (Subject)
- RAF, Royal Air Force (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.