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 Artillery 1911; World War I in France and Belgium with Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, Royal Artillery 1914-1918; Aide-de-camp to Gen Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson of Trent, Dorset Commander-in-Chief Northern Russia, Commander-in-Chief Aldershot Command, and Commander-in-Chief India 1919-1922; Army Medical Services, Eastern Command 1923-1924; Staff College, Camberley 1924-1925; General Staff, Aldershot Command 1926-1927; Bde Maj, 2 Infantry Bde 1928-1930; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Staff College, Camberley 1931-1934; Military Assistant to Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office 1934-1936; Imperial Defence College 1936; General Staff Officer Grade 1, War Office 1937-1939; British Military Mission to Turkey 1939; Deputy Director of Operations, War Office, Sept 1939; Maj Gen Royal Artillery, Home Forces and Maj Gen, 21 Army Group 1939-1944; Director Royal Artillery, War Office 1944-1946; Commander-in-Chief, Anti-Aircraft Command 1946-1948; retired 1948

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Papers, chiefly 1939-1945 (one file), comprising; papers relating to his mission to Turkey 1939; papers relating to his visits to France 1940; annecdotes concerning Adolf Hitler 1939-1945; also correspondence and papers concerning Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill's 80th Birthday Presentation Fund 1954

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES USSR 1919; South Asia 1921-1922; Middle East 1939; North West Europe 1940
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