Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1942-1949 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers relating to the campaign in France, 1940, including copy of typescript War Diary, written by Scott Elliot, of 154 Infantry Bde, 1-30 Jun 1940, on the withdrawal and evacuation of 'Ark Force' from Cherbourg, 15 Jun 1940, and copy of typescript 'ARK ... »
System of arrangement
5 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1902; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1923; served with 2 Bn, King's Own Scottish Borderers, in Egypt, Hong Kong, Shanghai and India, 1923-1932; Lt, 1925; ... »
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Scott-Elliot in 1981. Copies of papers relating to the campaign in France, 1940, and operations in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945 were made by the Centre from originals lent by Scott-Elliot in 1981.
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
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Decorations: CB, CBE, DSO
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Maps
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- War diaries
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Brooks, Close, fl 1946, Captain (Subject)
- Whitfield, John Yeldham, 1899-1971, Major General (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.