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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0099 KCLMA Foulkes
- Title
- FOULKES, Maj Gen Charles Howard (1875-1969)
- Date(s)
- Created 1894-1981
- Level of description
- collection level
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 16 boxes or 0.16 cubic metres
Context
- Administrative / Biographical history
Born in India, 1875; commissioned into the Army as 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1894; service in Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1897-1899; service in the Boer War, 1899-1900; assistant commander on the Anglo-French Boundary Commission, Northern Nigeria, 1902-1904; service in West Africa, 1903; appointed Capt and married Dorothea Oakey, 1904; command of the Ordnance Survey of Scotland, 1904-1909; command of 31 (Fortress) Company, Ceylon, 1909-1912; command of L Company at RE Depot, Chatham, 1913; appointed Major, 1914; service on the Western Front, World War One, 1914-1918; appointed Gas Adviser, 1915; command of Special Brigade, and Director of Gas Services, 1917; President of the Chemical Warfare Committee, 1918; service in North West FrontierProvince, India, 1919-1920; appointed Lt Col, Commander, Royal Engineers in Fermoy, Ireland and Director of Irish Propaganda, 1921; Commander, Royal Engineers in Northumbria, 1922; appointed Col and Deputy Chief Engineer, Southern Command, 1924; Chief Engineer, Aldershot Command, 1926-1930; ADC, 1928; appointed Maj Gen, 1930; publication of Gas! The Story of the Special Brigade (W Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1934); Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1937-1945; publication of Commonsense and ARP, a practical guide for householders and business managers (C Arthur Pearson, London, 1939); awarded Gold Medal of the Institution of Royal Engineers, 1964; died in Hampshire, 1969.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Placed in the Centre by the family in several accessions between 1981 and 1987.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Diaries, 1901-1968; papers and photograph albums relating to the Boer War and photography in military reconnaissance, including an unpublished manuscript, 1897-1902, service in Northern Nigeria on the Anglo-French Boundary Commission, 1902-1904, West Africa, 1903, West Indies, 1902 and Ordnance Survey of Scotland, 1904-1909; papers relating to the introduction and use of chemical warfare during World War One, 1914-1918, and on the North West Frontier, India, 1919-1920 andphotographs taken on the Western Front, 1914-1915 and 1919; articles written as Director of Irish Propaganda during the Anglo-Irish War, 1921; papers concerning appointments as Colonel Commandant and Representative Colonel Commandant, 1937-1944; papers concerning writing and publication of 'Gas!' The story of the Special Brigade (Blackwoods, 1934) and Commonsense and ARP (C Arthur Pearson, 1939) and draft chapters and photographs concerning the unpublished manuscript 'Adventures of an Engineer Subaltern' dealing with military career, 1897-1903; personal correspondence and papers relating to memorial service, 1900-1981; glass and film negatives covering career, 1897-1920.
- System of arrangement
The original order of the papers within the files themselves has not been altered. However, the collection has been rearranged chronologically into sections according to military service, apart from the diaries, personal correspondence and glass and film negatives, which are grouped together. A concordance comprising the original list number and corresponding new number is includedat the end of the list.
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
- Language/scripts of material
English. A very small quantity of material relating to Irish propaganda, 1921, is Irish Gaelic.
- Finding aids
This detailed Catalogue, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
- King's College London College Archives
- Publication note
Biographical notes following his death by Thomas Foulkes in the Royal Engineers Journal (Sep 1969).
Notes
- Note
Compiled Jun 1996
Description control
- Rules or conventions
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
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Subjects
- Anglo-Irish War (1920-1922)
- Chemical warfare
- Civil war
- Colonial conflicts
- Colonial countries
- Communication process
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Memoirs
- Military engineering
- Nonfiction
- Persuasion
- Photographs
- Political movements
- Political systems
- Primary documents
- Propaganda
- Prose
- Second Boer War, 1899-1902
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- Wars (events)
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
Places
- Americas
- Caribbean
- France
- India, South Asia
- Ireland
- London, England
- Nigeria, West Africa, Africa
- Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, South Asia
- Scotland
- West Indies
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