Summary Guide

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3.1 IDENTITY STATEMENT

3.1.1 Reference code: GB99 KCLMA Ritchie

3.1.2 Title: RITCHIE, Maj Gen Walter Henry Dennison (1901-1984)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1946-1947

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level (single item)

3.1.5 Extent: 1 volume

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1901; educated at St John's College, Southsea; 2nd Lt, Royal Army Signals Corps, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1935; Staff Capt, 1936-1939; served in France, North Africa and Italy, 1939-1945; Maj, 1939; Adjt, 1939; served with 15 Army Group, 1943; Deputy Quartermaster General to Gen Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Armies in Italy (15 Army Group), 1943-1944, and to Lt Gen Mark Wayne Clark, Commanding Gen, 15 Army Group, 1944-1945; Brig in charge of administration, British Troops in Egypt and Chairman of Operation SATIRE Works Committee, 1946-1947; Maj Gen, 1953; Director of Quartering, War Office, 1953-1954; Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office, 1954-1957; retired, 1957; Col Commandant, Royal Army Signal Corps, 1959-1964; Honorary Col, 101 Army Emergency Reserve Regt, Royal Corps of Transport, 1965-1967; died in 1984.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Presented to the Centre by the family in 1993.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Bound minutes of meetings of Operation SATIRE Works Committee meetings, Jul 1946-Mar 1947, concerning the provision of accommodation for military units moving to the Canal Zone, Egypt.

3.3.4 Arrangement: single item

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, CBE

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