King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned Royal Artillery 1897; Staff College, Quetta, India 1909-1910; World War I 1914-1919; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 4 Div, France; Brig Gen, General Staff, 20 Corps, Palestine 1917-1918; Brig Gen, General Staff, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Palestine 1918; General Officer Commanding 6 Infantry Bde 1923-1926; Director of Recruiting and Organisation, War Office 1927-1928; Commandant, Imperial Defence College 1929-1931; Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, War Office 1931-1934; Chief of General Staff, India 1934-1937; General Officer Commanding, Central Northern Command 1937-1940; retired 1940; North Eastern Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence 1940-1945

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Papers concerning his career 1917-1940 (one box), including; memoranda, reports and correspondence relating to operations in Palestine 1917-1918 (ref: Bartholomew 1/1-21); official correspondence with Gen Sir Kenneth Wigram, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India, Oct-Dec 1935, including Wigram's criticisms of Maj Gen Sydney Frederick Muspratt, Commander, Peshawar District (ref: Bartholomew 2/2); semi official letters from FM Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode 1926-1936, including comments on army colleagues (ref: Bartholomew 2/3); two letters from FM Sir Cyril Deverell, with comments on recent senior army appointments 1935-1936 (ref: Bartholomew 2/4/1-2); correspondence with FM Sir John Greer Dill (three items), with comments on present situation in North Africa and on British relations with Germany 1936 (ref: Bartholomew 2/4/3-5); five letters from FM Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, with comments on army reforms 1936 (ref: Bartholomew 2/4/6-10); papers relating to the Bartholomew Committee 1940, created to consider the lessons of recent operations in France and Belgium and their application to the threat of German invasion of the UK (ref: Bartholomew 3/1-11); the papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Bartholomew 1928-1931 (ref: LH 1/45) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: The papers of FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead, include a copy of a confidential report on Montgomery by Bartholomew, Mar 1937 (ref: BLM 8/6)

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS staff 1917-1918; strategy 1917-1918; strategy 1940
PLACES Middle East 1917-1918; South Asia 1935; North West Europe 1940
NAMES Gen Sir Sydney Muspratt 1935

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