IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Alford
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: ALFORD, Col Johnathan R (1933-1986)
Date(s): Created 1974-[1976]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file.
Name of creator(s): Alford | Jonathan R | 1933-1986 | Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1933; educated at Rugby School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1953; Lt, 1955; assisted in preparation of nuclear tests on Christmas Island [1957-1958]; Capt, 1959; Maj, 1964; Military Assistant to the Chief of General Staff, 1965-1966; Lt Col, 1970; Col, 1974; served on General Staff of UK Land Forces 1974-1976; Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies 1977-1986; died in 1986.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Draft of a text on strategy and tactics on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945, written in [1974]; draft article describing tour of duty of battalion of Royal Engineers in Belfast, [1969-1973], written in 1974; draft of a text on the changing concept of defence, primarily concerned with the shift from positional defence to mobile defence, [1976].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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 on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1987.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996