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 1914-1918; Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General, 66 Div 1917-1918; Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General, Supreme War Council, Versailles 1918-1919; Assistant Adjutant General, British Military Mission, Berlin 1919; Special Mission (to organise police), Poland, Oct 1919; Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence 1926-1932; Imperial Defence College 1933; General Staff Officer Grade 1, War Office 1934-1936; Deputy Director of Staff Duties, War Office 1936-1938; Chief of British Military Mission to Egyptian Army 1938; World War II 1939-1945; Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1940-1942; Chief of British Army Staff, Washington DC, USA 1942; retired 1946; Regional Commissioner for Lower Saxony, Control Commission Germany 1946-1947; British Chairman of Economic Control Office for British and American Zones of Germany 1947-1949; Economic Adviser to UK High Commissioner, Germany 1949-1951

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM: The papers of Maj Gen William Watson Richards (ref: 84/32/2) include correspondence with Macready as Chief of British Army Staff, Washington DC, USA, Aug-Nov 1942, on problems with tanks and vehicles supplied for the campaigns in North Africa by the USA (specific ref: WWR/10); PRIVATE PAPERS: Some (unspecified) papers have remained with his family

Publications
In the wake of the great, memoirs (William Clowes & Sons, London, 1965);

Index terms
SUBJECTS logistics 1942; ordnance 1942; armoured warfare 1942
PLACES North America 1942
NAMES Gen Sir Nevil Macready (father)

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