Papers of Brigadier Arthur Blair Gibson (1894-1986)

Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Gibson

Title: GIBSON, Brig Arthur Blair (1894-1986)

Dates of creation of material: 1915-[1951]

Level of description: item level

Extent: 0.01m³ or 1 box of papers

Introduction

• Biographical history
• Provenance
• Scope and content
• Arrangement
• Conditions of access and use

Brief List

• 1 Papers relating to Gibson's service with 56 Frontier Force Rifles (2 Bn, 13 Frontier Force Rifles) on the North West Frontier, India, 1922-[1951]

• 2 Diaries relating to Gibson's service with 15 (Service) Bn, (1 Glasgow) Highland Light Infantry and the Intelligence Section, 4 Army, on the Western Front during World War One, 1915-1917

INTRODUCTION

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Born 1894; educated at Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, Scotland, and Universities of Bonn, Germany, and Glasgow; temporary Lt in 15 (Service) Bn, (1 Glasgow) Highland Light Infantry; served World War One, 1914-1918; temporary Capt, 1914-1917; Lt, 1916; Intelligence Section, 4 Army, Feb-Mar 1917; Lt in Indian army, 1917; Capt, 1919; service on the North West Frontier, India; Adjutant 56 Frontier Force Rifles, India; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, India, 1931-1932; Brevet Maj, 1932; Brig Maj, India, 1932-1935; Maj, 1933; Brevet Lt Col, 1937; Lt Col, 1938; General Staff Officer, Grade 1 and temporary Col, 1940; acting Brig, 1940; died 1986.

PROVENANCE

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988, with a further accession in 1989.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection contains two personal diaries relating to Gibson's service with 15 (Service) Bn, (1 Glasgow) Highland Light Infantry and 4 Army Intelligence Section during World War One, 1915-1917, mainly comprising brief descriptions of the battalion's movements on the Western Front. There is also an official war diary and a photograph album of a tour of duty with 56 Frontier Force Rifles, (2 Bn, 13 Frontier Force Rifles), in Asad Khal and Razmak, North West Frontier, India, 1922-1923, with an unofficial war history of the 56 Frontier Force Rifles from 1942-1946, [1951].

ARRANGEMENT

Arranged in sections as above.

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 College Archivist.

Language

English.

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