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 Bartholomew

3.1.2 Title: BARTHOLOMEW, Gen Sir William Henry (1877-1962)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1917-1950

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 1 box or 0.01m3

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1877; educated at Newton College, south Devon and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; joined Royal Artillery, 1897; graduated Staff College, Quetta, India, 1909-1910; served in World War One, 1914-1918; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 4 Division and Brig Gen, General Staff, 20 Corps, 1917-1918; Brig Gen, General Staff, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1918; commanded 6 Infantry Brigade, 1923-1926; ADC to the King and Maj Gen, 1926; Director of Recruiting and Organisation, War Office, 1927-1928; Commandant, Imperial Defence College, 1929-1931; Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, War Office, 1931-1934; Col Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1934-1937; Lt Gen, 1933; Chief of General Staff, India, 1934-1937; Gen, 1937; General Officer Commander-in-Chief, Northern Command, 1937-1940; ADC General to the King, 1938-1940; retired, 1940; North Eastern Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence, 1940-1945; died in 1962.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: presented to the Centre by the family in 1975

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Papers relating to operations of 20 Corps in Palestine, 1917-1918, including third Battle of Gaza; correspondence including with Gen Sir Kenneth Wigram, 1935, and FM Sir Philip Chetwode, 1926-1936, with related papers, 1911-1950; Bartholomew Committee, Jun 1940 including operations in Flanders, organisation and training of troops; Northern Command and civil defence, 1940-1945.

3.3.4 Arrangement: arranged in sections as above

3.4 CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE

3.4.2 Access: open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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 College Archivist.

3.4.4 Language: English

3.4.6 Finding aids: Detailed catalogue available on line and also 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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