Collection DIMOLINE - DIMOLINE, Maj Gen William Alfred (1897-1965)

Key Information

Reference code

DIMOLINE

Title

DIMOLINE, Maj Gen William Alfred (1897-1965)

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

(1897-1965)

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... »

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

Rules and/or conventions used

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