King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned, Black Watch 1914; World War I 1914-1918; France 1915; Mesopotamia 1916-1917; Palestine 1918; General Staff Officer Grade 3, War Office 1923-1927; Staff College, Camberley 1929-1930; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Northern Command, India 1933-1937; Commanding Officer, King's Own Royal Regt, Palestine 1938-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Commanding Officer 51 (Highland) Div 1940-1941; Deputy Chief of Staff, Middle East 1941; replaced Gen Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham as Commander, 8 Army, Libya 1941; Commander, 52 (Lowland) Div 1942-1943; 12 Corps, British Liberation Army, North West Europe 1944-1945; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Scottish Command 1945-1947; Commander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces 1947-1949; British Army Staff, Washington DC, USA and Military Member of Joint Services Mission 1950-1951; retired 1951

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Ritchie, Jun-Oct 1943 (ref: LH2R/75/1-7) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Photocopy of letter from Derek Mills Roberts, Headquarters 1 Commando Bde, describing the crossing of the River Rhine, 23 Mar 1945; the papers of Maj Gen Ronald Frederick King ('David') Belchem (ref: 84/2/1) include a single letter from Ritchie, Jun 1942; JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY, MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY: The papers of FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck include correspondence with Ritchie 1941-1942

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES North West Europe 1945
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