Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1898-1947 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres
Scope and content
Typescript edited and unedited versions of memoirs of Lt Col John Alfred Codrington, [1947] entitled 'Gathering moss', 1898-1944, including account of service with British Mission Allied Armies of the Orient, Smyrna, Turkey, 1920, and as British Liaison ... »
System of arrangement
3 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1898; educated at Harrow, Christ Church, Oxford and Strasbourg University; served with French Red Cross, France, 1915-1916; Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1916-1917; commissioned into the Coldstream Guards, 1917; served in World War One, 1914-191... »
Repository
Custodial history
Purchased by the Centre 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 ›
Note
Compiled Jun 1998
Subjects
- Architecture
- Armed forces
- Diplomacy
- Documents
- Fine arts
- Foreign relations
- Higher science education
- History
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Memoirs
- Military education
- Military history
- Military liaison
- Military missions
- Military organizations
- Monuments
- Organizations
- Painting
- Paintings
- Photographs
- Religious buildings
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- War memorials
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- Wars (events)
- Buildings
People and Organisations
- Codrington, John Alfred, 1898-1991, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- Higginson, Sir George Wentworth, 1826-1927, Knight, General (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- Coldstream Guards (Subject)
- French Army (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.