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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0099 KCLMA Poole
- Title
- POOLE, Maj Gen Sir Frederick Cuthbert (1869-1936)
- Date(s)
- Created 1917-1919
- Level of description
- collection level
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Context
- Administrative / Biographical history
Born 1869; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1889; Lt, 1892; served Tirah Expedition, North West Frontier, India, 1897-1898; Capt, 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; awarded DSO, 1902; service with Somaliland Field Force, 1903-1904; served in Northern Nigeria, 1904; Maj, 1909; retired 1914; re-employed by Army, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Lt Col, 1915; Brevet Col, 1917; awarded CMG, 1917; temporary Maj Gen, 1917; awarded CB, 1918; General Officer Commanding, North Russia Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919; created KBE, 1919; Hon Maj Gen, 1920; retired 1920; died 1936.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1980.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Papers relating to the British Military Mission to the Volunteer Army under Gen Anton Ivanovich Denikin, South Russia, 1917-1919, and Poole's tenure as General Officer Commanding, North Russia Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919, including maps of Russia, various scales, 1917-1919; typescript report by Capt George A Hill, RAF, entitled 'Report of work done in Russia to end of 1917', 27 Nov 1918; printed War Office report entitled 'Report on visit of British Military Mission to the Volunteer Army under General Denikin in South Russia', Nov-Dec 1918; printed booklet entitled 'A brief review of the liberation of the Don province from the yoke of the bolscheviks and of the beginning of the strife for the restoration of the unity of Russia', 1918; printed War Office report entitled 'Appreciation of the internal situation in Russia', 12 Jan 1919; typescript 'Report of a visit to the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army in South Russia', by Poole, Feb 1919.
- System of arrangement
3 files
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 and Russian.
- Finding aids
This Summary Guide
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
- King's College London College Archives
- Related units of description
The Liddle Collection, Leeds University, contains a copy of a report by Poole on a visit to the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army, North Russia, 1918-1919. The privately held papers of Rt Hon Sir Francis (Oswald) Lindley contain orders by Poole, North Russia, 1918-1919.
- Publication note
- The Liddle Collection, Leeds University, contains a copy of a report by Poole on a visit to the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army, North Russia, 1918-1919. The privately held papers of Rt Hon Sir Francis (Oswald) Lindley contain orders by Poole, North Russia, 1918-1919.
Notes
- Note
Decorations: KBE, CB, CMG, DSO
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
- Armed forces
- Civil war
- Diplomacy
- Foreign relations
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military missions
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Political movements
- Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
- State security
- War
Personal names
- Denikin, Anton Ivanovich, 1872-1947, Russian General
- Hill, George A, fl 1917-1918, Captain
- Poole, Sir, Frederick Cuthbert, 1869-1936, Knight, Major General
Corporate names
- RAF, Royal Air Force
Places
- Crimea
- Russia, Eastern Europe
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