Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1951 (Creation)
- 1941-1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
3 boxes or 0.03 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers relating to his service in World War Two, dated 1941-1946, 1941-1946, 1951, principally comprising semi-official and personal correspondence, 1941-1946, including letter to his wife describing events leading up to his dismissal from command of 7 ... »
System of arrangement
Arranged in the following sections: miscellaneous correspondence; reports, lessons and accounts relating to campaigns; reports, lessons and accounts relating to units; official and propaganda publications.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1893; educated at Eton College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, Indian Army, 1913; joined 9th Hodson's Horse, 1914; served in World War One in France, Palestine, and Syria; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1917; served in India, 1919-1938, at ... »
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Messervy in 1971.
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.
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Related materials
Note
Compiled Mar 1997
Subjects
- Amphibious warfare
- Armed forces
- Civil defence
- Defence
- Desert warfare
- Higher science education
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military education
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- State security
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, 1900-1979, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet (Subject)
- Trapp, Sir Nigel, fl 1947, Knight, Major General (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- Indian Army (Subject)
- Merchant Navy (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.