King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Name
WALSH, Ridley Pakenham Pakenham- (1888-1966), Major General

Service biography
Commissioned, Royal Engineers 1908; Instructor, Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia 1914-1915; World War I 1915-1918; Dardanelles 1915; France and Belgium 1916-1918; British Representative, International Commission, Teschen, Poland 1919-1920; Instructor in Tactics and Bde Maj, School of Military Engineering 1923-1926; General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office 1927-1930; Imperial Defence College 1932; Assistant Adjutant General, War Office 1934-1935; Brig Gen, General Staff, Eastern Command 1935-1939; Maj Gen and Commandant of School of Military Engineering and Inspector of Royal Engineers 1939; Engineer-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France and Belgium 1939-1940; Mission to USA 1940; General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District 1940-1941; Corps Commander 1941; Commander, Salisbury Plain District 1942; Controller General, Army Provision (Eastern Group) 1943-1946; retired 1946

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Papers (two and a half boxes), including; letters written as British Representative, International Commission to Teschen, Poland 1919-1920; diaries, letters, reports and photographs 1917-1947; file of letters from FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, and FM William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside of Archangel and Ironside, to Col Roderick MacLeod 1939-1945

Publications
OTHER_PAPERS No other papers have been traced

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