King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Joined Royal Artillery 1899; South African War 1899-1902; transport section, German Army, Bondelzwarts War, South West Africa 1904; Staff Captain, South Africa 1908-1909; World War I 1914-1918; General Staff Officer Grade 3 1914; General Staff Officer Grade 2 1915; General Staff Officer Grade 1 1916; Commander, 99 Infantry Bde 1918; Commander-in-Chief, Allied Troops, Archangel, North Russia 1918-1920; Ismid Force 1920; North Persian Force 1921; Commandant, Staff College, Camberley 1922-1926; Commander, 2 Div, Aldershot 1926-1928; Commander, Meerut District, India 1928-1931; Lieutenant of Tower of London 1931-1933; Quartermaster General, India 1933-1936; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command 1936-1938; Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar 1938-1939; World War II 1939-1940; Inspector General of Forces 1939; Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1939-1940; Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces 1940; Col Commandant Royal Artillery 1932-1946

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Maj Gen Ridley P Pakenham-Walsh include a file of letters from Ironside to Col Roderick (Rory) MacLeod 1939-1945; the papers of Col Roderick (Rory) MacLeod include a copy of unpublished book 'A Secret Service Agent in South West Africa' relating to Ironside's career 1899-1904; the papers of Maj Gen George Mackintosh Lindsay include correspondence with Ironside 1929-1932, on mechanisation and the tactical deployment of armoured forces (ref: LH 15/12); the Lindsay papers also include correspondence between Lindsay, Ironside and Maj Gen Charles (Noel Frank) Broad, Sep-Dec 1939, on tank warfare (ref: LH 15/12); the papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Ironside 1926-1939 (ref: LH 1/401) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Letters 1936-1955 relating to Ironside's career, 1914-1955; the papers of Maj E R Sturdy include Ironside's dispatches and appendices relating to the North Russian Campaign 1918-1919; the Department of Sound Records holds a recording; NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM, LONDON: Typescript and manuscript war diary relating to service in North Persia 1920-1921 (six files, ref: 6403/2); duplicate copy of 'A Secret Service Agent in South West Africa'; letters to Col Roderick MacLeod 1939-1959 (22 items, ref: 8502/32); PRIVATE POSSESSION: Family retain a large collection of papers; including private diaries 1918-1959; correspondence, articles, lectures and press cuttings 1937-1941; ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION, LONDON: Letters to Col Roderick MacLeod concerning Ironside's service 1914-1920 (ref: MS 124)

Publications
: Tannenberg: the thirty days in East Prussia (W Blackwood & Sons, London, 1925); Archangel, 1918-1919 (Constable, London, 1953); James Eastwood, General Ironside (Pilot Press, London, 1940); Andrew Soutar, With Ironside in North Russia (Hutchinson & Co, London, 1940); edited by Roderick MacLeod and Denis Kelly, The Ironside diaries, 1937-1940 (Constable, London, 1962); edited by 2nd Baron Ironside (son), High road to command: the diaries of Major General Sir Edmund Ironside, 1920-1922 (Leo Cooper, London, 1972)

Index terms
SUBJECTS intelligence 1899-1904; armoured warfare 1929-1932; armoured warfare 1939
PLACES USSR 1918-1920; Middle East 1920-1921
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