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 Hargreaves

3.1.2 Title: HARGREAVES, Maj Gen William Herbert (1908-1994)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1939, 1988

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 1 file

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1908; educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Lt, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1931; served in Palestine, 1936-1939; served in World War Two; Medical Liaison Officer to Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington DC, 1946-1948; Professor of Medicine, University of Baghdad, 1951-1959; Physician to King Faisal II of Iraq, 1951-1958; Honorary Consulting Physician, Iraqi Army, 1953-1958; Director of Medicine and Consulting Physician to the Army, 1960-1965; retired, 1965; died in 1994.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Presented to the Centre by Hargreaves in 1988.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Copies of letter to Hargreaves from Maj Gen Bernard Montgomery, thanking him for medical care he received in the British Military Hospital, Haifa in May-Jun 1939, written on 16 July 1939, with covering letter from Hargreaves to the Centre, 1988.

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.

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

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: Feb 1997

3.6.2 Decorations: CB, OBE

• Return to Summary Guide introductory page
• Return to List of Collections
• Return to home page