Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944-1946 (Creation)
- 1940 (Creation)
- [1933]-1934 (Creation)
- 1928-1931 (Creation)
- 1925 (Creation)
- 1895-[1920] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
4 reels, 1 file
Scope and content
Microfilm copies of papers relating to his life and career, dated 1906, 1913, 1914-1918, 1925, 1928-1931, [1933]-1934, 1940, 1944-1946, principally comprising letters, telegrams and postcards to his wife Noel Charteris, 1914-1918, notably describing his ... »
System of arrangement
Arranged in the following sections: papers relating to early life and career; letters to his wife; other official and family papers, 1914-1922; notes, texts and other writings; photographs.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1877; educated at Kelvinside Academy, Göttingen University and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1896, and posted to India; served on North West Frontier with Military Works Services; transferred to Bengal Sappers and ... »
Repository
Custodial history
Copies made by the Centre in 1990 from originals loaned by the family.
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.
Uploaded finding aid
Related materials
Publication note
Charteris' letters to his wife formed the basis for his book At GHQ (Cassell and Co, London, 1931). Michael Occleshaw consulted Charteris' letters for his book Armour against fate, British military intelligence in the First World War (Columbus, London, 1989).
Note
Decorations: CMG, DSO
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Communication process
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military engineering
- Military intelligence
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Persuasion
- Photographs
- Propaganda
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- War propaganda
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Charteris, John, 1877-1946, Brigadier General (Subject)
- Charteris, Noel, fl 1914-1918, wife of Brigadier General John Charteris (Subject)
- Edmonds, Sir James Edward, 1861-1956, Knight, Brigadier General (Subject)
- Haig, Douglas, 1861-1928, 1st Earl Haig, Field Marshal (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- German Army (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.