IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Barber
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: BARBER, Lt Col Norman Alexander (1906-1994)
Date(s): Created 1925-1945, 1950, 1993
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Barber | Norman Alexander | 1906-1994 | Lieutenant Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1906; served with the Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army, [1930]-1939; Capt, 1933; service with 42 (East Lancashire) Div, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army, 1939; Maj, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service with British Expeditionary Force, France, 1939-1940; posted to 18 Div, Singapore, 1941; POW, Changi Camp, Singapore, 1942-1945; died 1994.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Typescript papers relating to Territorial Army annual training exercises, UK, 1935-1937. Papers relating to Barber's time as a Japanese POW in Changi POW Camp, Singapore, 1942-1945, including detailed manuscript diary, 25 Aug 1942-4 Sep 1945, with notes on diet, casualties, disease and nominal rolls of prisoners; eight manuscript letters home from Barber, written after the liberation of Singapore, 1945; printed 'Memorandum for the information of prisoners of war of United Kingdom Forces detained in the Far East' [1945]; two 18 Division Association printed booklets, 1950 and 1993. Two portrait photographs of Barber [1939]. Papers relating to the campaign in France, 1940, including four printed maps of France, Belgium and the Netherlands, various scales, 1938-1939; typescript 'Orders for troops in transit at Cherbourg' and 'Orders for disembarkation' [1940]. Printed training manuals, 1925-1945, including Royal Army Service Corps training manual Mechanical transport. Maintenance, upkeep and operation (HMSO, London, 1925); Section leading (HMSO, London, 1928); Air Raid Precautions. Respirators (HMSO, London, 1939).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
6 files
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 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.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary Guide entry available 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:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1996.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: MBE, TD
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1998