Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1947 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 volume
Scope and content
Memoir of his service with the Royal Scots Greys in the Middle East, 1942-1943, Italy, 1943-1944, and North West Europe, 1944-1945, written from his own experiences and using regimental war diaries, 1947.
System of arrangement
single item
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1919; commissioned into Royal Scots Greys, 1941; served in Middle East, 1941-1943, Italy, 1943-1944, and North West Europe, 1944-1945, and after the war in Germany, Libya, Egypt, Jordan and UK; Adjutant, 1945-1946; Commanding Officer, 1959-1962; retired, 1962; awarded the Légion d'honneur in 2015.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Sprot in 1994.
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.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Decorations: MC
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- Diaries
- Documents
- Information sources
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Literary forms and genres
- Literature
- Memoirs
- Military organizations
- Nonfiction
- Organizations
- Primary documents
- Prose
- State security
- War
- War diaries
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.