King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Joined 2 Northamptonshire Regt 1916; World War I 1914-1918; 2 Northamptonshire Regt, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1916-1918; General Staff, War Office 1934-1936; World War II 1939-1945; Commanding Officer, 1 East Lancashire Regt 1941-1942; Brig commanding 214 Independent Infantry Bde 1942-1943; Commander, 43 Wessex Infantry Div, campaign in North West Europe 1944-1945; President, Regular Commissions Board 1946-1949; retired 1949

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Essame 1952-1969 (ref: LH 1/269); no reply to approach letter to executors, 1987 No other papers have been traced

Publications
: The 43rd Wessex Division at war (William Clowes & Sons, London, 1952); The north west Europe campaign, 1944-1945 (Gale & Polden, Aldershot, 1962); with Eversley Michael Gallimore Belfield, The battle for Normandy (Batsford, London, 1965); The battle for Germany (Batsford, London, 1969); Normandy bridgehead (Macdonald & Co, London, 1971); Battle for Europe, 1918 (Batsford, London, 1972); Patton the commander (Batsford, London, 1974); Sir Brian Horrocks with Eversley Michael Gallimore Belfield and Hubert Essame, Corps commander (Magnum Books, London, 1977)

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