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 MISC 19

3.1.2 Title: Documents relating to the Allied offensive at Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944

3.1.3 Dates of creation of material: 1944-1946

3.1.4 Level of description: collection level

3.1.5 Extent: 1 file

3.2 CONTEXT

3.2.5 Provenance/source of acquisition: Placed in the Centre in 1983 and 1984 by Dr Michael Dockrill, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London

3.3 CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

3.3.1 Scope and content: Collection includes five postcards, four of which are of British troops from 1 Airborne Div at Hotel De Tafelberg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands, during Operation MARKET GARDEN, the Allied attempt to establish a bridgehead across the Rhine river at Arnhem, 17 Sep-25 Sep 1944, and one of the Airborne Monument at Oosterbeek, built by Jacob Maris, 1946; and a personal account by Henk B van der Horst entitled, Paratroopers Jump, Fury over Arnhem (Boekhandel Romijn, Oosterbeek, 1946), relating to the Allied airborne offensive at Arnhem, 17 Sep-25 Sep 1944.

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 available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

3.6 NOTE AREA

3.6.1 Date of compilation: Oct 1999

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