Summary Guide

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3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT

3.1.1 Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Ashton

3.1.2 Title: ASHTON, Brig William Proctor Bell (1897-1981)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1941-1946

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 1 file

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1897; 2nd Lt, 1918; served in France and Belgium, Aug-Oct 1918; entered Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1923; Capt, 1929; Maj, 1935; Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, 1938-1940; Lt Col, 1940; Deputy Director of Ordnance Services (Engineering), Malaya Command, 1941-1942; Col, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1943; Assistant Director of Mechanical Engineering in the War Office, 1946-1947; Brig, 1948; died in 1981.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Two reports on ordnance engineering services in Malaya during the period 1941-1942, written by Ashton following the destruction of all records at Malaya Command in 1942, [1946]; papers relating to the above reports, principally comprising Ashton's report to Air Cdre Modin on RAF Senior Training Corps mechanics attached to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Malaya, [1942-1943], an account of ordnance engineering services in Malaya during 1941-1942 by the Assistant Director of Ordnance Services (Engineering), 3 Indian Corps, [1942-1946], reports on ordnance services in Malaya during the period 1941-1942, written for Ashton by Capt E J Coulthard, H J Howland and Lt G A Neale, [1946].

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: Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: July 1996

3.6.2 Decorations: MC

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