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 1915-1918; 2nd Lt, Worcestershire Regt 1915; Capt, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1930; Maj, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1938; World War II 1939-1945; Deputy Commander, 1 Allied Airborne Army 1945; Commander, 1 British Airborne Corps 1945; 1 Infantry Div 1946-1947; General Officer Commanding British Troops, Egypt and Mediterranean Command 1948-1949; Director General of Military Training, War Office 1949-1952; Commander-in-Chief, Northern Army Group, Allied Land Forces, Europe and British Army of the Rhine 1952-1957; retired 1957; re-employed as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1958-1960

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Gale 1951-1970 (ref: LH 1/304) No other papers have been traced

Publications
With the 6th Airborne Div in Normandy (Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1948); Call to arms. An autobiography (Hutchinson, London, 1968); Great battles of biblical history (Hutchinson, London, 1968); The Worcestershire Regiment, the 29th and 36th Regiments of foot (Leo Cooper, London, 1970); Kings at arms: the use and abuse of power in the great kingdoms of the East (Hutchinson, London, 1971)

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