Key Information
Reference code
Title
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
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.
Repository
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
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
Clwyd Record Office (Buddicom papers)
Related materials
Note
Compiled Oct 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Armoured forces
- Armoured warfare
- Central government
- Government
- Government departments
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Mechanical engineering
- Military engineering
- Military organizations
- Motor vehicles
- Organizations
- Public administration
- State security
- Tanks
- Vehicles
- War
- Warfare
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Stern, Sir Albert Gerald, 1878-1966, Knight, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
- Royal Naval Air Service (Subject)
- War Office (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.