Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1914-1965 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
26 boxes or 0.026 cubic metres
Scope and content
The papers cover the period 1914-1965 and include papers relating to service in England, France and with British Army of the Rhine, 1914-1919 in particular 35 Division Artillery Signals; Iraq, including diary, 1920-1921; Nigeria, including field message ... »
System of arrangement
Arranged in sections according to chronology of military service. Papers deposited by the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Army Cadet Force Association, and maps, are grouped separately.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1897; educated at Birkenhead and Dean Close, Cheltenham; joined 5 Battalion King's Liverpool Regt, 1914; served with East Surrey Regt in France and Belgium, World War One, 1914-1919; served with Midland Division HQ, British Army of the Rhine, 1919... »
Repository
Custodial history
The papers were deposited in the Centre in 1967, the bulk of which were received from the family. Papers relating to the King's African Rifles, Northern Rhodesia Regiment and Rhodesia African Rifles were transferred from the School of Oriental and ... »
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 and detailed catalogue.
Note
Decorations: MC, DSO, CBE, CMB, CB
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Communication process
- Diaries
- Documents
- Group communication
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International organizations
- International politics
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Maps
- Military communications
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
- Abyssinia
- England, Hampshire, Aldershot
- East Africa, Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- South Asia, India
- Middle East, Iraq
- East Africa, Kenya
- Southern Africa, Zambia, Lusaka District, Lusaka
- East Africa, Madagascar
- South East Asia, Myanmar
- Africa » West Africa » Nigeria
- Northern Rhodesia
- South Asia, Pakistan, Quetta
- river, Rhine
- Eastern Europe, Poland, Warsaw
- England, London
People and Organisations
- Dimoline, William Alfred, 1897-1965, Major General (Subject)
- George V, 1865-1936, King of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- UN, United Nations (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.