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Papers of Maj Gen William Alfred Dimoline, CB, CMB, CBE, DSO, MC (1897-1965)


Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Dimoline
Title: DIMOLINE, Maj Gen William Alfred (1897-1965)
Dates of creation of material: 1914-1965
Level of description: collection level
Extent: 0.26m3 or 26 boxes of papers

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Papers of Maj Gen William Alfred Dimoline, CB, CMB, CBE, DSO, MC (1897-1965)


INTRODUCTION

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Born in 1897; educated at Birkenhead and Dean Close, Cheltenham; joined 5 Battalion King's Liverpool Regt, 1914; served with East Surrey Regt in France and Belgium, World War One, 1914-1919; served with Midland Division HQ, British Army of the Rhine, 1919; transferred to Royal Signals, 1920; served in India, 1920-1922; Iraq, 1921; West Africa (Nigeria) 1922-1928; Staff College, 1933-1934; 2 Indian Division Signals, Quetta, India (Quetta earthquake), 1935-1936; General Staff Officer Grade 3, War Office, 1936-1937; Officer Commanding Troops, Northern Rhodesia, 1937-1940; served during World Two including Commander, 26 (East African) Infantry Brigade, 1941-1942, Commander of 22 (East African) Brigade, Madagascar, 1942-1943, and 28 (East African) Brigade, Ceylon, India and Madagascar, 1944-1945; Commander, 11 East African Division, Burma, 1945-1946; General Officer Commanding, East Africa, 1946-1948; Commander, Aldershot District, 1948-1951; Representative for United Kingdom on Military Staff Committee, United Nations, 1951-1953; retired, 1953; Col Commandant, King's African Rifles, Northern Rhodesia Regt and Rhodesian African Regt, 1954-1960s; Chairman of Army Cadet Force Association, 1954-1960; Secretary, British Section of Inter-Parliamentary Union, 1959-1962; Secretary of overseas organisation of Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, 1962-1965; Col Commandant, Malawi Rifles, 1964-1965; died in 1965.

PROVENANCE

The majority of the papers were deposited in the Centre in 1967, by the family. Papers relating to the King's African Rifles, Northern Rhodesia Regiment and Rhodesia African Rifles were transferred from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. A proportion of the papers relating to the Army Cadet Force Association were deposited by the Association itself.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The papers cover the period 1914-1965 and include papers on his service with the East Surrey Regt in Belgium and France, and with the British Army of the Rhine, 1914-1919; correspondence and diaries from his service in Iraq, with the Royal Signals, 1920-1921; field message book from his service in Nigeria, 1924; diary of earthquake from his service in Quetta, India, 1935; newspapers covering death of King George V, 1936; scrap albums from his service as Officer Commanding, Northern Rhodesia Regt, Lusaka, 1937-1940; operation reports from his service as Officer Commanding, 26 (East African) Infantry Brigade, East Africa and Abyssinia, 1940-1941; reports on Operation IRONCLAD, from his service as Officer Commanding 22 (East African) Infantry Brigade, Madagascar, 1942; accounts of operations from his service as Officer Commanding 28 (East African) Infantry Brigade and 11 (East African) Division, Burma and India, 1944-1946; official circulars, speeches and addresses from his service as General Officer Commanding East Africa, 1946-1948; speeches and lectures from his service as General Officer Commanding, Aldershot Command, 1948-1951; diary from his service as Representative on Military Staff Committee, United Nations, 1951-1953; correspondence from his service as Col Commandant of Northern Rhodesia Regiment, King's African Rifles and Kenya Regiment, 1952-1964; minutes of meetings and committee papers relating to his service as Chairman of the Army Cadet Force Association, 1956-1959; account of journey to Warsaw, Poland, from his service as the Secretary of the British Section of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, 1959; and maps from the Western Front, Iraq, India, Nigeria and Madagascar, from his service, 1914-1943.

ARRANGEMENT

Arranged in sections according to chronology of military service. Papers deposited by the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Army Cadet Force Association, and maps, are grouped separately.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE

Access

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copyright

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

English.

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