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ANSTRUTHER-GOUGH-CALTHORPE, Brig Sir Richard (Hamilton) 2nd Bt (1908-1985)


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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the Family in 1985.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CBE

Date(s) of descriptions: July 1996.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Government departments | Central government | Public administration | Government
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

Personal names
Calthorpe | Sir | Richard Hamilton | Anstruther-Gough- | 1908-1985 | 2nd Baronet | Brigadier x Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe | Sir | Richard

Corporate names
British Army
War Office

Places
Norway | Northern Europe | Western Europe | Europe
Palestine | Middle East