Collection MESSERVY - MESSERVY, Gen Sir Frank Walter (1893-1974)

Key Information

Reference code

MESSERVY

Title

MESSERVY, Gen Sir Frank Walter (1893-1974)

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

(1893-1974)

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 ... »

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

The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, at the University of Southampton Library include personal correspondence, 1946-1947 (Ref: MB1/E106). The National Army Museum have two bound volumes and one folder of ... »

Note

Compiled Mar 1997

Rules and/or conventions used

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