King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned into Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1931; Instructor, Royal Military College Sandhurst 1938; World War II in North West Europe, North Africa, Italy, India and Burma 1939-1945; Commander, 2 Cameronians, Italy 1943; operations Staff, Second Chindit expedition, Burma 1944; Chief Instructor, School of Combined Operations 1946-1948; Officer Commanding 1 Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1954-1955; General Officer Commanding 26 Gurkha Bde 1955-1957; Senior Instructor, Staff College, Camberley 1958; Imperial Defence College 1959; Chief of Defence Staff Ghana 1960-1961; Commander, Ghana Contingent UN Forces, Belgian Congo 1960-1961; Chief of Staff Northern Command, Headquarters York 1962-1965; retired 1965; British Observer, International Observer Team on genocide, Nigeria 1968

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Reports and correspondence relating to Ghana, Congo and Nigeria 1960-1970 (two boxes - closed)

Publications
African tightrope: my two years as Mkrumah's Chief of Staff (Pall Mall Press, London, 1965)

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES West Africa 1960-1970; Central Africa 1960-1961
NAMES Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana 1960-1961; Maj Gen Henry Lethbridge Alexander (father)

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