Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1994 (Creation)
- [1953] (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 files
Scope and content
Operation BUFFALO: the indoctrination of serving officers. AWE Report No T1/93', official Atomic Weapons Establishment report on a nuclear warfare training programme for British Army officers held during the BUFFALO atomic tests at Maralinga, South Australia, 1956, written by Drake Seager in 1994 using contemporary notes and reports. 'British atomic trials', copy of printed article by Drake Seager, [1953].
System of arrangement
2 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1921; attended British nuclear tests, Monte Bello Island, Western Australia, 1952, and Emu Field, Australia, 1953; Indoctrinee Force Coordinator, BUFFALO nuclear tests, Maralinga, Australia, 1956; died in 1996.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by Drake Seager in 1995.
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
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Compiled Jun 1997
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.