King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned, Cameronians 1905; World War I 1914-1918; Staff Capt, France 1914-1915; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, France 1915-1917; Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, France and Italy 1917-1919; Bde Maj, Irish Command 1921-1922; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, Staff College 1922-1925; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Scottish Command 1926-1929; Commander, 2 Bn, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1930-1933; Assistant Quartermaster General, War Office 1933-1934; Commander, Poona (Independent) Bde Area 1935-1938; Director of Movements and Quartering, War Office 1938-1939; World War II 1939-1945; World War II 1939-1945; Deputy Quartermaster General, War Office 1939-1940; General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South India 1941; Lieutenant General in charge of Administration, Middle East 1941-1942; Quartermaster General, War Office 1942-1946; retired 1946; Col, Cameronians 1946-1951; President of the British Legion (Scotland) 1949-1965

Papers

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OTHER_PAPERS IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: Five files of semi-official correspondence (ref: P29), relating to administration and supply, comprising; correspondence with Gen Sir Walter King Venning relating to Egypt, Persia, Iraq, India and Turkey #from 1941 #to 1942; correspondence with Gen Sir Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell and Gen Sir Walter King Venning relating to the Middle East, Italy and Sicily #from 1942 #to 1943; correspondence between Lt Gen Sir Humfrey Myddleton Gale, Chief Administration Officer, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, and Gen Sir Walter King Venning, Quartermaster General, relating to the logistics of US troops and fuel supply, North Africa #year 1942; correspondence with Lt Gen Sir Humfrey Myddleton Gale relating to Operation PLUTO (concerning fuel supplies for the invasion of France) #from 1944 #to 1945; reprint of article, 'Operation PLUTO' by Arthur Clifford Hartley, Chief Engineer, Anglo-Iranian Oil Co #year 1945; correspondence with FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, India, relating to India and the Far East #from 1943 #to 1944; correspondence with Lt Gen Sir Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell relating to India #from 1943 #to 1945; correspondence with Maj Gen Sir Miles William Arthur Peel Graham, in charge of Administration, 21 Army Group, relating to the invasion of France #from 1944 #to 1945; transcript of Riddell-Webster's BBC broadcast concerning the preparations for the D-Day landings, Normandy, France #year 1944; the papers of FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead, include a single letter from Riddell-Webster, Sep #year 1944 (ref: BLM 97/37)

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