King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Joined Army 1898; King's Royal Rifle Corps, South Africa 1899-1902; awarded Victoria Cross, South Africa 1901; World War I 1914-1918; France 1914-1917; General Staff Officer Grade 3, 2 Div, Aug-Sep 1914; General Staff Officer Grade 2, General Headquarters 1914-1915; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 46 Div, Mar-Nov 1915; Commander, 113 Bde, 38 Div 1915-1917; Liaison Officer with British Forces, Italy Apr-Oct 1918; President, Standing Committee of Enquiry regarding POWs 1918-1919; Assistant Adjutant General, Aldershot Command 1920-1924; Commander, 145 Infantry Bde 1924-1927; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Gibraltar 1927-1930; retired 1930; service with Home Guard, World War II 1940-1944

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: 900 letters home to his wife 1914-1918 (ref: 77/78/4), including; letters home from France 1914-1917; letters home from Italy 1918; also a scrapbook of souvenirs relating to his Army career 1899-1918; the papers of FM Sir Henry Hughes Wilson include correspondence with Price-Davies 1918-1922; NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM, LONDON: Diaries 1899-1944 (ref: 9610-109)

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS Staff 1914-1918
PLACES North West Europe 1914-1917; Western Front 1914-1917; southern Europe 1918
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