King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
World War I 1914-1918; Commander, 1 Bn Seaforth Highlanders 1927-1929; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 5 Div 1930-1932; Commander, 5 Infantry Bde 1932-1935; Commander, 52 (Lowland) Div 1935-1936; South Western Area 1937; Commander, 51 (Highland) Div Territorial Army 1937; World War II 1939-1945; France 1940; POW 1940-1945; retired 1945

Papers
Family informed the Centre in 1981 that there were no papers; BLACK WATCH MUSEUM, PERTH, SCOTLAND: Press cuttings relating to St Valery, France 1940 (described by Black Watch Museum as 'only of minimal interest'); IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Correspondence register kep by Fortune as a POW, Germany 1940-1945

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES North West Europe 1940
NAMES

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