IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: ANSTRUTHER-GOUGH-CALTHORPE, Brig Sir Richard (Hamilton) 2nd Bt (1908-1985)
Date(s): Created [1978]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Calthorpe | Sir | Richard (Hamilton) Anstruther-Gough- | 2nd Baronet | Brigadier
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1908; educated at Harrow School and Magdalene College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, Royal Scots Greys, 1929; Lt, 1932; Adjutant, 1936-1939; served in Palestine 1936-1939; Capt, 1938; Staff Capt, 49 West Riding Div, York, 1939; served in Norway, 1940, and the Middle East, 1941-1942; Officer Commanding, Military Operations Section No 5, War Office, 1943-1944; Deputy Director of Military Operations, War Office, 1944-1947; Maj, 1946; honorary Brig, 1947; retired, 1947; died in 1985.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Brief account of his life and career, 1908-1947, written in [1978].
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 available on-line 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 1985.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: CBE
Date(s) of descriptions: July 1996.