Summary Guide

ANDERSON, Lt Col Victor Dennistoun Winstanley (1900-1942)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Anderson V

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: ANDERSON, Lt Col Victor Dennistoun Winstanley (1900-1942)

Date(s): 1929-1946

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Anderson | Victor Dennistoun Winstanley | 1900-1942 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1900; Indian Army, 1919; Adjutant and Quarter Master, Small Arms School India, 1930-1931; second in command of 1 Battalion, 14 Punjab Regiment, 12 Dec 1941-9 Jan 1942; killed in Malaya, 1942.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Lt Col Victor Dennistoun Winstanley Anderson, 1929-1946, relating to service with the Indian Army, comprising group photograph including Anderson and published material including History of the 1st Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment, Sherdil Li Paltan. [by Lt Col G H Thompson], 1946; Passing it on: short talks on tribal fighting on the North West Frontier of India by Gen Sir Andrew Skeen (Gale & Polden, 1932) and the Manual of Military Law, 1929.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Original order

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided 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 Archives and Information Management, King's College London.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Army List, Jan 1942.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2008

Subjects

Colonial forces | Armed forces | State security

Military history | History

Military law | Legal systems | Law

World War Two (1939-1945) | War | International conflicts

Military organizations

World wars (events)

Personal names

Anderson | Victor Dennistoun Winstanley | 1900-1942 | Lieutenant Colonel

Corporate names

Places

Afghanistan | Middle East

India | South Asia

Northwest Frontier | Pakistan | South Asia

North West Frontier x Northwest Frontier