King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Joined special reserve of Cheshire Regt 1914; France and Belgium, World War I 1914-1918; transferred to Welsh Guards on its formation 1915; Adjutant 1919-1922; Staff Capt, Turkey 1923; Commander, 1 Bn Welsh Guards 1934-1937; Officer Commanding, Welsh Guards Regt and regimental district 1937-1939; Commander, Officer Production Group, Territorial Army 1939; World War II 1939-1945; Bde Commander, British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1940; Commander, Armoured Bde 1941-1943; Infantry Bde, Eastern Command 1943-1945; Commander, Headquarters Toulon 1945-1947; retired 1947

Papers
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers 1914-1947 (ref: 66/86/1-2), including; letters home to his family from the Western Front 1914-1917; letters home to his family written as Bde transport officer, 1 Guards Bde Headquarters, Constantinople, Turkey 1922-1923; operations orders for Operation HARPOON, the planned landing at the Hook of Holland, May 1940; report on the defence and evacuation of Boulogne by 20 Guards Bde, May 1940; reports on the planned organisation of a second Guards Armoured Div, and on the Home Forces exercise VULCAN 1942; press cuttings relating to the death in captivity in the Far East of Maj Gen Merton Beckwith-Smith, Nov 1942; official correspondence, memoranda and signals relating to Fox-Pitt's service as Commander, 203 Sub Area, British Forces in France 1945-1946; copy correspondence between HRH the Duke of Windsor (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David), formerly King Edward VIII and Fox-Pitt 1940-1947; The Department of Sound Records holds a recorded interview, made in 1987 (ref: 9958/4)

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES North West Europe 1914-1917; Middle East 1922-1923; The Netherlands 1940; North West Europe 1940; North West Europe 1945-1946
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