King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned, Grenadier Guards 1904; World War I 1914-1918; Staff Capt, France 1914-1915; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, France 1915; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, France 1915-1916; Officer Commanding 3 Bn Grenadier Guards 1916-1918; Commander, 184 Infantry Bde 1918-1919; Assistant Military Attache, Washington DC, USA 1919-1920; General Staff Officer Grade 2, London District 1922-1923; Staff College, Camberley 1923-1925; Military Assistant to Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office 1925-1926; Officer Commanding 3 Bn Grenadier Guards 1927-1931; Military Attache, Berlin, Germany 1932-1935; Commander, 1 (Guards) Bde, Aldershot Command 1935-1936; temporary Bde Commander, Palestine and Transjordan 1936; General Officer Commanding London District and Maj Gen commanding Bde of Guards 1938-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Commander, 48 (South Midland) Div, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France 1939-1940; Commander, 12 Corps in Kent and Sussex, UK 1940-1941; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Scottish Command 1941-1945; Commander-in-Chief, Allied Land Forces and Head of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force Mission, Norway 1945; retired 1946; Ministry of Defence, Norway 1950-1951

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: File of correspondence with Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1922-1943 (ref: Thorne); the papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart also include correspondence between Liddell Hart and Thorne 1932-1968 (ref: LH 1/693) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Letters home to his wife 1914-1919 (ref: AT); also papers collected as research for an article on the battle of Gheluvelt, Oct 1914; NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM, LONDON: Notes and extracts from regimental histories relating to the Battle of the Aisne, Sep 1914; correspondence and press cuttings 1914-1981 relating to operations of 1 Guards Bde, Battle of Ypres, Oct 1914(ref: 8703/31)

Publications

Index terms
SUBJECTS
PLACES Western Front 1914; North West Europe 1914
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