Collection MANLY - MANLY, Lt Col Laurence Arthur (1899-1942)

Key Information

Reference code

MANLY

Title

MANLY, Lt Col Laurence Arthur (1899-1942)

Date(s)

  • 1940 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Photocopy of typescript account of service of 2 Lancashire Fusiliers in France and Belgium, 14 May-2 Jun1940, notably their evacuation from Dunkirk, 30 May-2 Jun 1940, dated 14 Jun 1940.

System of arrangement

1 file

General Information

Name of creator

(1899-1942)

Biographical history

Born in 1899; 2nd Lt, Lancashire Fusiliers, 1917; served in France and Belgium, 1918; Lt, 1919; served with Indian Signal Corps, 1924-1928; Capt, 1930; Staff Officer, India, 1930-1932; Adjutant, 1933-1936; Garrison Adjutant, 1937-1940; Maj, 1938; Lt Col, 1940; served in France, 1940; killed in action in Tunisia during Operation TORCH in 1942.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1985.

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.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Feb 1997

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

Accession area