King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Enlisted in ranks 1914; World War I 1914-1918; commissioned, Leicester Regt 1915; Capt, Royal Warwickshire Regt 1922; Staff College, Camberley 1924-1925; General Staff Officer Grade 3, RAF co-operation, Aldershot 1926-1928; Bde Maj, Eastern Command 1928-1930; General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office 1931-1932; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Staff College 1932-1935; Maj, South Lancashire Regt 1935; General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office 1936-1937; Lt Col, Royal Warwickshire Regt 1937; World War II 1939-1945; Commander, Nowshera Bde 1939-1940; Director of Staff Duties 1940; Vice Chief of Imperial General Staff 1941-1946; retired 1946; Governor of Madras, India 1946-1948; UK High Commissioner, India 1948-1952; UK High Commissioner, Canada 1952-1956

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Nye 1938-1965 (ref LH 1/551) The family informed Chris Cook that Nye left no papers (see Sources in British political history, 1900-1951 (Macmillan, London, 1975)); NUFFIELD COLLEGE LIBRARY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY: The papers of Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell of Oxford, include correspondence with Nye 1941-1948 (ref: CSAC 80/4/81, 99/3/84); SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Nye on the reorganisation of the Commandos 1943 (ref: MB1/B22); the Mountbatten papers include correspondence relating to South East Asia Command 1943-1945 (ref: MB1/C187); the Mountbatten papers include correspondence relating to India 1948-1952 (ref: MB1/G29); The papers of Lt Gen Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese (ref: Strong Rm), include three copy letters from Leese to Nye, Mar-Jun 1945, reporting on present and planned future operations in South East Asia; the Leese papers also include four letters from Nye to Leese 1945-1946, including promises of reinforcements, 1945, and Nye's reasons for accepting a Governorship, 1946; the papers of FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead, include correspondence with FM Sir Alan Brooke and with Nye as Vice Chief of Imperial General Staff 1944-1945 (ref: BLM 115-116), including comment on Montgomery's opinion of, and relations with, Gen Dwight David Eisenhower, comparison of the performance of experienced and inexperienced divisions in Normandy, 1944, and the proposed redeployment of 52 Div in Burma, Sep 1944; the Montgomery papers also include correspondence with Nye 1944-1945 (six items ref: BLM 119)

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES North West Europe 1944-1945; South Asia 1948-1952
NAMES Gen Sir Harry Hugh Sidney Knox (father-in-law)

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