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 Wintour

3.1.2 Title: WINTOUR, Maj Gen Fitzgerald (1860-1949)

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1898-1918

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 0.5 box or 0.005 m3

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.2 Biographical history: Born in 1860; entered Army, 1880; served in Egypt, 1882; Sudan, 1884-1885 and 1885-1886; Capt, Royal West Kent Regt, 1887; served on North West Frontier, India, 1897; served in Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1901; Maj, 1900; Lt Col, Norfolk Regt, 1904; Col, 1908; commanded brigade in France, World War One, 1914-1915; Deputy Assistant and Quarter Master General, Headquarters, 2 Army, 1915; retired, 1918; died in 1949.

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Placed in the Centre by the family in 1990.

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Photocopies of memoir covering military service, 1860-1918; published account of Tochi Valley expedition, Afghanistan, 1897-1898; complaint relating to conditions in trenches, Western Front, World War One, 1915.

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 in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: Jun 1996

3.6.2 Decorations: CB, CBE

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