King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Joined 7 Queen's Own Hussars 1911; World War I 1914-1918; General Staff Officer Grade 3, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1918-1919; Staff College, Camberley 1923-1924; Staff Capt, Scottish Command 1925-1927; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, North China 1927-1928; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Eastern Command 1928-1929; Commander, 10 Royal Hussars 1935-1937; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, 1 Armoured Div 1937-1938; Brig in charge of Administration, Palestine 1938-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Deputy Quartermaster General, Middle East 1940-1942; General Officer Commanding, Sudan and Eritrea 1942-1943; Quartermaster General, India 1944-1945; retired 1945

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: the papers of Maj Gen William Watson Richards (ref: 84/32/2) include correspondence with Hutchison, Headquarters Sudan, 1942-1943, including details of vehicle supplies in Eritrea (specific ref: WWR/12); PRIVATE POSSESSION: Family have some correspondence, mostly letters of appointment. Hutchison never kept a diary

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS logistics 1942-1943
PLACES North Africa 1942-1943
NAMES

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