King's College London
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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

Service biography
Commissioned, 4 Irish Dragoon Guards 1901; South African War 1901-1902; aide-de-camp to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Africa 1905-1908; World War I 1914-1918; attached to Somaliland Camel Constabulary, East Africa 1914-1915; 7 Bn North Lancashire Regt and 8 Bn Gloucestershire Regt 1916; awarded Victoria Cross, La Boiselle, France 1916; temporary Commander, 12 Infantry Bde, France 1917; 4 Dragoon Guards 1917-1918; Commander, British Military Mission to Poland 1918-1924; retired 1924; re-employed World War II 1939-1945; British Military Mission with Polish Army; Commander, Norwegian Expeditionary Force; Middle East; POW 1941-1943; British military representative with Gen Chiang Kai-Shek, China 1943-1946; retired 1947

Papers
LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES: Family informed the Centre in 1968 that there were no papers; the papers of Gen Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay of Wormington, include correspondence with publishers and colleagues, including Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, about a proposed biography of Carton de Wiart 1962-1964 (ref: Ismay 4/Car/1-132); the papers of Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor include an account of O'Connor's and Carton de Wiart's unsuccessful attempt at escape from captivity as POWs in Castle Vincigliata, Italy 1942 (ref: O'Connor 4/5/1); the papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Carton de Wiart 1962 (ref: LH 1/152)

Publications
OTHER_PAPERS IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON: The papers of Howell Arthur Gwynne (ref: Con Shelf), editor of The Morning Post, include a single letter from Carton de Wiart, May #year 1920; READING UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND MANUSCRIPTS: The papers of Robert Peter Fleming include material he gathered for an uncompleted biography of De Wiart, comprising; notes, drafts, newspaper cuttings, and reminiscences by Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor; SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: The papers of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, include correspondence with Carton de Wiart relating to his mission to China #from 1943 #to 1946 (ref: MB1/C42-43); the Mountbatten papers also include the text of a BBC broadcast about Carton de Wiart made by Mountbatten #year 1963 (ref: MB1/J63)

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Last updated:NAMES Lt Gen Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart