Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1939-1945] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copies of pocket diaries covering his service in Italy, Jun 1944-Apr 1945. Two photographs of Wheeler, [1939-1945].
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1915; educated at Rugby School and Christ Church College, Oxford; Barrister, Grey's Inn, 1938; served in World War Two with Royal Artillery (Territorial Army); served in Italy, 1944-1945; Lt Col, 1946; Barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1946; Deputy High Court Judge (Chancery Div), 1972-1989; died in 1992.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1993.
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.
Note
Compiled Nov 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Photographs
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Territorial Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.