King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Joined Connaught Rangers 1884; Indian Staff Corps 1886; Waziristan, North West Frontier, India 1895; Aide-de-camp to Commander-in-Chief, East Indies 1899; China 1900; Maj, Indian Army 1902; Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster General, India 1903; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Staff College 1908; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Staff College, Quetta, India 1911-1912; World War I 1914-1918; General Staff Officer Grade 1, Cavalry Div and Cavalry Corps, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1914; 1 Army 1915-1917; fall of Jerusalem, Palestine 1917; Afghan War 1919; General Officer Commanding, Peshawar District, India 1919-1923; Adjutant Gen, India 1923; General Officer Commanding Eastern Command, 1923-1928; retired 1929

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Notebooks as staff officer in France, Egypt, Palestine and India 1914-1921; including notes on strategy, staff duties, admininstration and operations 1914-1917, also; notes on 1 Army, Jul 1916; notes on operations on 2 Corps front, Jul 1916; notes on brigadiers' conference 1917; notes on training conference, Apr 1921; post-war speeches including one made to members of the Indian legislative assembly, Khyber, Apr 1921; also file of correspondence 1905-1948; including letters from FM Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, 1941-1945; letters from FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, 1905-1917 (nine items)

Publications
: The fire of life, memoirs (Hutchinson & Co, London, 1942); 'David': shepherd, poet, warrior, king, on King David of Israel (Skeffington & Son, London, 1946); India: our finest moment (King Bros & Potts, St Leonards-on-Sea, 1950)

Index terms
SUBJECTS trench warfare 1915-1917
PLACES France and Belgium 1915-1917; Western Front 1915-1917; Israel 1917; Middle East 1917; South Asia 1921
NAMES Maj Gen de Symons Barrow (father)

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