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

WARRACK, Col Graeme Matthew (1913-1985)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Warrack

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

Title: WARRACK, Col Graeme Matthew (1913-1985)

Date(s): Created [1944], 1949-1951, 1979, 1998

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes and 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1913; educated at Edinburgh Academy, Trinity College, Glenalmond, Edinburgh University and the University of Pennsylvania, USA; served with 7/9 Bn, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt), Territorial Army, and the Royal Army Medical Corps, UK, Sicily, Italy and North West Europe, World War Two, 1939-1945; Lt Col, 1942; Col, 1944; Assistant Director of Medical Services, 1 Airborne Div, Battle of Arnhem, Operation MARKET GARDEN, the Netherlands, 1944; awarded DSO, 1945; awarded Territorial Decoration, 1946; local Brig, Territorial Army, 1960; Chairman, Edinburgh, Lothians and Peebles Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, 1962; publication of Travel by dark: after Arnhem (Harvill, London, 1963); Deputy Lieutenant, Edinburgh, 1963; President, Royal Odonto-Chirurgical Society of Scotland, 1967; awarded CBE, 1968; Hon Col, 144 Parachute Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers), 1969; Member of Queen's Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Company of Archers); Chairman, Royal British Legion, Scotland, 1981-1984; died in 1985.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Diary, 17 Sep-16 Oct 1944, covering his service at Battle of Arnhem (Operation MARKET GARDEN), with part of 'Suggested medical plan' prepared for Deputy Director of Medical Services, 1 Airborne Corps, 22 Sep 1944, and part of note relating to the strength of medical forces, [1944]. Transcript of part of above diary made by Sir Basil Liddell Hart, with related correspondence, 1949-1951. Bound transcript of above diary made by Lt Col Kenneth Garside, Honorary Keeper of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, with foreword by Warrack, 1979. The diary formed the basis of Warrack's book Travel by dark: after Arnhem (Harvill, London, 1963), and a BBC television production Arnhem: the story of an escape, originally broadcast in 1976. Typescript copy of 'The Airborne Hospital, Willem 111 Kazerne, Apeldoorn, 25th Sept 1944 to 26th Oct 1944. Nominal roll of the wounded' compiled by Peter H Starling, Curator of the Army Medical Services Museums, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1998.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

2 volumes and 1 file.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by Warrack in 1979. Sir Basil Liddell Hart's transcript and correspondence were transferred from Section 2 of the Liddell Hart papers. Additional accession presented to the Centre by Peter H Starling in 1998.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Copies of the diary are also held at the Airborne Forces Museum and the Royal Army Medical Corps Historical Museums, Aldershot, Hampshire.

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CBE, DSO, TD

Date(s) of descriptions: Dec 1998


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Airborne warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Armed forces | State security
Casualties | Military medicine | Medical sciences
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Hospitals | Health services
Operation Market Garden (1944) | Military operations | Military engineering
Surgery | Medical sciences
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Medical institutions
Military organizations
Primary documents
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names
Garside | Kenneth | 1913-1983 | Lieutenant Colonel | librarian and archivist
Hart | Sir | Basil Henry | Liddell | 1895-1970 | Knight | Captain | military historian x Liddell Hart | Sir | Basil
Starling | Peter H | fl 1998 | museum curator

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Apeldoorn | Netherlands | Western Europe | Europe
Arnhem | Netherlands | Western Europe | Europe