King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975

Service biography
Joined Royal Artillery 1870; Afghan War 1879; Egyptian War 1882; Nile expedition 1884-1885; East Sudan 1885; South African War 1899-1902; Officer Commanding North West districts, Cape Colony 1900; General Staff Officer, Army Headquarters 1907-1911; Maj-Gen in charge of administration, Eastern Command 1912-1915; World War I 1914-1918; Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and the Aegean islands 1915-1916; Deputy Adjutant General, Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-1918; retired 1919

Papers
BRITISH LIBRARY, DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, LONDON: Reports to Lt Gen Herbert Eversley Belfield 1918, concerning POWs (ref: Add MSS 62472)

Publications
At the house of the priest (Herbert Jenkins, London, 1925); Soldiers and others I have known (Herbert Jenkins, London, 1925); The golden scarab (Methuen & Co, London, 1926); A flash of lightning (Methuen & Co, London, 1927); Napoleon of the snows: a study of the Marengo Campaign (Nash & Grayson, London, 1931)

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES
NAMES Gen Sir John Miller Adye (father)

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