Collection WILSON, WG - WILSON, Maj Walter Gordon (1874-1957)

Key Information

Reference code

WILSON, WG

Title

WILSON, Maj Walter Gordon (1874-1957)

Date(s)

  • 1920 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Copies of pages from Sir Albert Stern's Tanks, 1914-1918: the log book of a pioneer (1919), with annotations by Wilson, 1920.

System of arrangement

1 file.

General Information

Name of creator

(1874-1957)

Biographical history

Born 1874; educated HMS BRITANNIA and King's College Cambridge; member of Institution of Civil Engineers; worked as designer of motor cars; joined Royal Naval Air Service [1914]; served as Lt in Armoured Car Div, RN, 1914; worked for Landships Committee on design of armoured fighting vehicles; Chief of Design, Mechanical Warfare Department, War Office, 1916-1918; with Sir William Tritton worked with Lt Col Sir Albert Gerald Stern on the design of first tank, 1915-1916; temporary Maj Tank Corps, 1916; awarded CMG, 1918; member of Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply [1939-1942]; died 1957.

Custodial history

Purchased by the Centre in 1977.

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. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Clwyd Record Office (Buddicom papers)

Related materials

The Centre holds the papers of Lt Col Sir Albert Gerald Stern (GB99 KCLMA Stern). Wilson's obituary is held in the Liddell Hart papers at 9/28/59.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Oct 1996

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Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

Accession area