King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned, Rifle Bde 1911; 2 Bn, India 1911-1914; World War I in France and Belgium 1914-1918; World War II 1939-1940; Commander, 17 Infantry Bde, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France 1939-1940; Defence of Arras, France 1940; General Officer Commanding 56 (London) Div 1941; Commandant, Staff College 1942; General Officer Commanding 33 Indian Corps, Burma 1943-1945; battle of Imphal and Kohima 1944; battle of Mandalay and battle of Meikteila 1945; Irrawaddy crossing 1945; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, 12 Army, Burma Command and Allied Forces, Netherlands East Indies 1945-1946; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces, Netherlands East Indies 1946; Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces, South East Asia 1946-1947; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command 1947-1949; retired 1949

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: The papers of Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Stopford 1959-1960 (Ref: LH 1/660) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Papers, CLOSED until 2032; the papers of Lt Gen Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese (ref: Strong Rm), include three letters from Stopford, Mar-Aug 1945, including comment on 33 Indian Corps, Burma; Department of Sound Records has a recorded interview with Stopford; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Stopford relating to South East Asia Command 1944-1946 (ref: MB1/C254); the Mountbatten papers also include personal correspondence with Stopford 1947-1948 (ref: MB1/E168)

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