King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975
Name MARTIN, James Mansergh Wentworth (1902-1986), Major General
Service biography Joined Royal Field Artillery 1922; West African Frontier Force 1925-1927; Private Secretary to Governor of Assam 1928-1929; transferred to King George V's Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army 1930; Staff College, Camberley 1936; World War II 1939-1945; operations in Iraq, Meerut Cavalry Bde 1938-1943; Brig, General Staff to Gen Alexander, 15 Army Group, Italy 1943-1944; Second in Command, 1 Indian Armoured Bde, 14 Army, Burma 1944-1945; Commander, 1 Indian Armoured Bde, India 1945-1947; transferred to Royal Scots Greys 1948; Chief of Staff, British Troops in Trieste 1948-1949; Commander, 9 Armoured Bde 1949-1951; Deputy Chief of Staff to Marshal Alphonse Juin, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces Central Europe, Fontainebleau, France 1951-1953; General Officer Commanding, Salisbury Plain District 1953-1956; retired 1956
Papers No reply to approach to executors, 1986
No papers have been traced