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MARRIOTT, Lt Col John Horace (1916-2007)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Marriott

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: MARRIOTT, Lt Col John Horace (1916-2007)

Date(s): 1941-2007

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Marriott | John Horace | 1916-2007 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1916; educated Brunswick Preparatory School, Hayward's Heath, 1926-1929; Uppingham School, 1930-1934; Sandhurst, 1934-1935; Lt, 2 Bn, Leicestershire Regt, 1936; service in Londonderry, 1936; Aldershot, 1936-1938; Palestine, 1938-1940, including night patrols in the Nablus region; Battalion Intelligence Officer, Acre, 1939; Western Desert, 1940-1941, including Sollum and Bardia, Dec 1940-Jan 1941; battle of Crete, May 1941; Syria, Jun-Sep 1941; Tobruk, Sep-Dec 1941; India, 1942-Aug 1943; Brigade Major, 16 Infantry Bde, 70 Div (subsequently renamed 3 Indian Div) Long Range Penetration (LRP) operations under Bernard Ferguson, Burma, 1943-1944; Brigade Major, 1 Parachute Bde, UK; Denmark to take the surrender of the German Forces, VE Day; instructor at the Joint Army/RAF Staff College, Haifa; commander, 3 Parachute Battalion in Germany; instructor at Mons Officer Cadet School; instructor at the Royal Navy Staff College; returned to the Leicesters in Iserlohn, 1953 and then on to the Sudan; Support Company Commander, Cyprus; staff appointments in GHQ, Nicosia; commander 5 Territorial Battalion, Leicester, 1959; British Military Staff, Washington, 1963-1965; retired, 1971; died, 2007.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Lt Col John Horace Marriott, 1941-2007, comprising memoir of life and service, 1916-1944, covering: early life in Hove, 1916-1922; Switzerland, 1922-1926, including detailed account of skiing in the 1920s; education, including at Sandhurst, 1929-1935 and military service including Lt, 2 Bn, Leicestershire Regt, 1936; service in Londonderry, 1936; Aldershot, 1936-1938; Palestine, 1938-1940, including night patrols in the Nablus region; Battalion Intelligence Officer, Acre, 1939; Western Desert, 1940-1941, including Sollum and Bardia, Dec 1940 - Jan 1941; battle of Crete, May 1941; Syria, Jun-Sep 1941; Tobruk, Sep-Dec 1941; India, 1942-Aug 1943 and 70 Div (subsequently renamed 3 Indian Div) Long Range Penetration (LRP) operations under Bernard Fergusson, Burma, 1943-1944. The memoir includes sketches of a barrack room, Londonderry; latrines, Sandhurst (Commanding Officer's one-man tent, and six seater 'thunderbox', in use) and a mule carrying radio equipment, Burma.

Transcripts of Marriott's letters home, 19 Feb-9 Jun 1941, including on successful treatment of casualties and edition of The Green Tiger, newsletter of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, for Spring 2007, with obituary for Marriott and a photocopy from the letters page of a subsequent edition, with an appreciation by John Penlington, former driver to Marriott.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided 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 and Information Management, King's College London.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received by the Centre Feb 2008.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial countries | Political systems
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
War casualties | War victims | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

Personal names
Fergusson | Bernard | Sir | 1911-1980 | Baron Ballantrae
Marriott | John Horace | 1916-2007 | Lieutenant Colonel

Corporate names

Places
Crete | Greece | Western Europe | Europe
Hove | Sussex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
India | South Asia
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Londonderry | Ireland | Western Europe | Europe
Myanmar | South East Asia
Palestine | Middle East
Switzerland | Western Europe | Europe
Syrian AR | Middle East
Tobruk | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | North Africa
Western Desert | North Africa