Summary Guide

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3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT

3.1.1 Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Maze

3.1.2 Title: MAZE, Paul Lucien (1887-1979)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1914-1975

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 2 files

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1887; served in World War One, 1914-1918, unofficially with Royal Scots Greys, later with French Army on reconnaissance work; served in World War Two, 1939-1945, in Home Guard and as personal Staff Officer to ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris; appointed by Bomber Commander to help investigate the effects of British bombing raids on German towns, 1945; retired from Army, 1945; established international reputation as painter; died in 1979.

Publications: A Frenchman in khaki (William Heinemann, London and Toronto, 1934)

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Presented to the Centre by the family in 1980.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Copies of papers collected or created by Maze, 1914-1975, principally comprising correspondence with his World War One colleagues, 1918-1972, mainly relating to the second Battle of the Somme, 21 Mar-5 Apr 1918, and including letters from Gen Sir Hubert (de la Poer) Gough, 1918-1919, 1935, 1939, 1951, 1954-1956, 1963, Lt Gen Sir (Arthur) Edward Grasett, 1965, 1970, and Lt Gen Sir Frederick Ivor Maxse, 1919; photographs of Maze, 1914-[1918] and Gough, 1915; correspondence with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill concerning the Home Guard, 1943; photographs of ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1944; two typescript lists of German towns attacked by British bombers, 1945.

3.3.4 Arrangement: 2 files

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: Jun 1997

3.6.2 Decorations: DCM, MM and Bar

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