Collection TURNER CAIN - TURNER CAIN, Maj Gen George Robert (1912-1996)

Key Information

Reference code

TURNER CAIN

Title

TURNER CAIN, Maj Gen George Robert (1912-1996)

Date(s)

  • 1992 (Creation)
  • 1944-1946 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Scope and content

Typescript memoir, written in 1992, as Commanding Officer, 1 Bn, Herefordshire Regt, 11 Armoured Div, 21 Army Group, North West Europe, 1944-1945, entitled '1st Bn The Herefordshire Regiment route and battles from the Normandy bridgehead to the R Elbe in Germany, June 1944 to April 1945, including route maps and CO's pocket maps for specific incidents', with seven printed maps of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, annotated with routes taken and unit dispositions. Papers relating to Turner Cain's tenure as Chief Instructor, Tactical Wing, School of Infantry, British Army of the Rhine, Sennelager, Germany, 1946-1947, including typescript training notes on exercises, tactics of armoured forces and river crossing techniques, with manuscript explanatory notes written by Turner Cain in 1992.

System of arrangement

1 volume, 2 files.

General Information

Name of creator

Cain, George Robert Turner, 1912-1996, Major General
(1912-1996)

Biographical history

Born 1912; educated at Norwich School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the Norfolk Regt, 1932; served with 1 Bn, Royal Norfolk Regt, India, 1933-1938; Lt, 1935; Waziristan campaign, North West Frontier, India, 1937; service in World War Two, 1939-1945, with 1 Bn, Royal Norfolk Regt and 1 Bn, Hereford Regt, British Liberation Army, 1944-1945; Capt, 1940; Bde Maj, 1940-1941; Commanding Officer, 1 Bn, Herefordshire Regt, 11 Armoured Div, 21 Army Group, North West Europe, 1944-1945; temporary Lt Col, 1944-1953; awarded DSO, 1945; Maj, 1946; Chief Instructor, Tactical Wing, Sennelager School of Infantry, Germany, 1946-1947; Commanding Officer, 1 Bn, Royal Norfolk Regt, Berlin, Germany, 1947-1948; Brevet Lt Col, 1952; served in Hong Kong and UK, 1953-1955; Col, 1955; commanded Tactical Wing, School of Infantry, 1955-1957; temporary Brig, 1957; commanded 1 Federation Infantry Bde, Malaya, in operations in Malaya, 1957-1959; Brigadier General Staff, Headquarters British Army of the Rhine, 1961; Aide de Camp, 1961-1964; Chairman, F and G Smith Limited, 1962-1982; awarded CBE, 1963; Maj Gen Administration, General Headquarters, Far East Land Forces, 1964-1967; retired, 1967; awarded CB, 1967; Director, Crisp Maltings Limited, 1967-1982; Chairman, Walpole and Wright Limited, 1968-1982; Director, Crisp Malt Products Limited, 1968-1982; Deputy Col, Royal Anglian Regt, 1971-1974; Director, Edme Limited, 1972-1982; Chairman, Anglia Maltings Limited, 1976-1982; President, Anglia Maltings (Holdings) Limited, 1982-1996; died 1996.

Repository

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by Turner Cain in 1992.

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

Off-campus collection

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Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: CB, CBE, DSO

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Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

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