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BARNARDISTON, Maj Gen Nathaniel Walter (1858-1919)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Barnardiston

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

Title: BARNARDISTON, Maj Gen Nathaniel Walter (1858-1919)

Date(s): Created 1914-1919

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 0.5 box or 0.05 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Barnardiston | Nathaniel Walter | 1858-1919 | Major General

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1858; joined 77 (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt of Foot, 1878; Adjutant 2 Bn Middlesex Regt, 1882-1886; Capt, 1885; graduated Staff College, 1888; Aide de Camp to Governor of Bermuda, 1889-1892; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Eastern District, 1894-1897; Maj, 1896; Staff Captain Intelligence Div, War Office, 1898-1899; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Intelligence Div, War Office, 1899-1901; served with 2 Bn Middlesex Regt in the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1901-1902; temporary Military Attache to Brussels and The Hague, 1902-1904; Lt Col, 1904; Military Attache to Brussels, The Hague, and the Scandinavian Courts, 1904-1906; Military Attache to Brussels and The Hague, 1906; Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1906-1910; Brevet Col, 1907; Assistant Director of Military Training and General Staff Officer Grade 1, 1910-1914; Col, 1910; served World War One, 1914-1918; commanded British troops at the capture of Tsingtao, North China, 1914; Maj Gen, 1914; Commander 39 Div, 1915-1916; Chief of British Military Mission to Portugal, 1916-1919; died 1919.Publications:Handbook of the Belgian Army,(War Office Intelligence Department, Stationary Office, London, 1899); Handbook of the French Army, (War Office Intelligence Department, Stationary Office, London, 1901).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the Japanese and British capture of the German possession of Tsingtao, North China, during World War One, and a subsequent visit to Japan, 1914; papers created during command of 39 Div, 1915-1916; papers relating to post as Chief of British Military Mission to Portugal, including personal diaries, and correspondence relating to discussions held by Barnardiston on Belgian neutrality in 1906, 1916-1919.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mainly English, with some Japanese and Portuguese.

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as above.

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:

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

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1966.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Further papers (1859-1919) held at the Bury St Edmunds branch of the West Suffolk Record Office.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CB, MVO

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1998


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Military missions | Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
Neutrality | Foreign relations | International relations
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names
Barnardiston | Nathaniel Walter | 1858-1919 | Major General

Corporate names
British Army
Japanese Army

Places
Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Portugal | Western Europe | Europe
Tsingtao | China | East Asia