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

BARNETT, Maj Benjamin George (1912-1998)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Barnett B G

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

Title: BARNETT, Maj Benjamin George (1912-1998)

Date(s): Created 1944-1945

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Barnett | Benjamin George | 1912-1998 | Major

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1912; 2nd Lt, 100 Army Field Bde, Territorial Army, 1936; Lt, 1939; Capt, 1939; Officer Commanding, 249 Battery, 63 Anti-Tank Regt, Oxfordshire Yeomanry, 1944-1946; Maj, 1946; died 1998

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his military service, 1944-1945, principally comprising war diary including maps and photographs, Sep 1944-Jul 1945; copy of report on the liberation of Belsen written for the Director of Military Government by Lt Col R I G Taylor, Officer Commanding, 63 Anti Tank Regt, [1945]; orders relating to the occupation and administration of Belsen, from Brig General Staff of 8 Corps, British Liberation Army, April 1945; report on Belsen by Capt Barker, Royal Army Medical Corps, 63 Anti Tank Regt, Jun 1945; letter to British officers from a group of Czech women prisoners describing their treatment in Belsen, 1945; Barnett's notes for a talk on Belsen, ND; photographs showing inmates and conditions in Belsen, 1945; newspaper cuttings relating to Victory in Europe Day, the liberation of Belsen and the Belsen trial, May-Oct 1945; 'Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, June 1944-May 1945', issued by HMSO, 1946.

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 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 available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/archives, 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 Barnett in 1986.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: MBE

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
War diaries | Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
War prisoners | War victims | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

Personal names
Barker | fl 1945 | Captain
Barnett | Benjamin George | 1912-1998 | Major
Taylor | Richard Ian Griffith | fl 1945 | Lieutenant Colonel

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Belsen | Germany | Western Europe | Europe