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 Field Artillery 1912; World War I 1914-1918; France and Gallipoli 1914-1915; Western Desert 1917; transferred to Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1927; Instructor, Staff College, Camberley 1930-1933; Commander, 1 Bn, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 1935-1938; Imperial Defence College 1938; Commander, 4 Infantry Bde 1938-1940; World War II 1939-1945; temp Lt Gen 1942; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command 1942-1943; Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean 1944; Representative of British Chiefs of Staff and Head of British Military Mission to Moscow, USSR 1945; retired 1946

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers (ref: 73/14/1), comprising; report on mechanised operations, Egypt 1917; letters from Gallipoli and Near East 1915-1918; papers relating to army training 1940-1943; papers relating to British Military Mission to Moscow 1945

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS diplomacy 1945 ; intelligence 1945
PLACES Dardanelles 1915; Balkans 1915; Middle East 1917; Russia 1945
NAMES

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