Summary Guide

Note: The item numbers represent a subset from ISAD(G) rules (General International Standard Archival Description) promulgated by the International Council on Archives to standardise archival description world-wide. Only item numbers relevant to our specific archive are included here.

3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT

3.1.1 Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Alford

3.1.2 Title: ALFORD, Col Jonathan R (1933-1986)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1974-[1976]

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 1 file

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1933; educated at Rugby School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1953; Lt, 1955; assisted in preparation of nuclear tests on Christmas Island [1957-1958]; Capt, 1959; Maj, 1964; Military Assistant to the Chief of General Staff, 1965-1966; Lt Col, 1970; Col, 1974; served on General Staff of UK Land Forces 1974-1976; Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies 1977-1986; died in 1986.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Presented to the Centre by the family in 1987.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Draft of a text on strategy and tactics on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945, written in [1974]; draft article describing tour of duty of battalion of Royal Engineers in Belfast, [1969-1973], written in 1974; draft of a text on the changing concept of defence, primarily concerned with the shift from positional defence to mobile defence, [1976].

3.3.4 Arrangement: 1 file.

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE

3.4.2 Access: Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.

3.4.3 Copyright: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

3.4.4 Language: English

3.4.6 Finding aids: Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: June 1996

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