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;... »
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 ... »
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
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
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
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)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.