Collection DUNLOP - DUNLOP, Maj Gen Dermott (1898-1980)

Key Information

Reference code

DUNLOP

Title

DUNLOP, Maj Gen Dermott (1898-1980)

Date(s)

  • [1951] (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file or 0.01m3

Scope and content

Report by Maj Gen Dermott Dunlop on 'Security of Documents', written by Dunlop when Special Security Officer, Colonial Office, [1951], consisting of a series of questions to consider about the storage, classification, and circulation of documents.

System of arrangement

1 file as above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1898-1980)

Biographical history

Born 1898; educated Charterhouse and Sandhurst; commissioned into Royal Artillery, 1916; served in France and Flanders, 1916-1919; Regimental staff and instructional appointments, 1919-1939; Major, 1938; Lieutenant Colonel, 1939; Brigade Commander, UK, 1940-1941; Brigadier, 1941; Middle East and 8 Army, 1942-1945; Commander 2 Army Group, Royal Artillery, Tripolitania, 1947-1948; General Officer Commanding, Singapore District, 1948-1951; Member of Executive Council, Colony of Singapore, 1948-1951; Major General, 1949; retired 1951; employed at Colonial Office, 1951-1966; died 1980.

Archival history

Found in a property formerly owned by Maj Gen Dunlop.Immediate source of acquisition:Presented to the Centre by Mrs S M J Hobb, Oct 2005.

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.

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Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Decorations: CB, CBE

Archivist's note

Compiled by Katharine Higgon

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