IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Benson E R
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: BENSON, Maj Gen Edward Riou (1903-1985)
Date(s): Created 1948, 1950, [1964]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 files
Name of creator(s): Benson | Edward Riou | 1903-1985 | Major General
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1903; educated at Cheltenham College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 2nd Lt, Royal Field Artillery, 1923; Lt, 1925; ADC to Government United Provinces, 1929-1931; Capt, 1936; Adjutant, 1936-1938; General Staff Officer Grade 3, 1939-1940; Maj, 1940; Brig, 1942; served in North West Europe, 1944-1946; Col, 1946; Deputy Director, Military Government (British Element), Berlin, 1948-1950; Maj Gen, 1951; Commander, 4 Anti-Aircraft Group, 1951-1953; Chief of Staff, General HQ, Middle East Land Forces, 1954-1957; retired, 1957; Col Commandant, Royal Artillery, 1960-1965; died in 1985.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copies of typescript minutes of 21st meeting of Deputy Commandants of Allied Kommandatura Berlin, 4 Jun 1948; 'British Military Government Berlin, 1945-1950', pamphlet printed in 1950; typescript draft of 'Suez: the seven day war' by Arthur James Barker (Faber and Faber, London, 1964), [1964].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
3 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 supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide 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:
Copies made by the Centre in 1986 from originals loaned by the family.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: CB, CMG, CBE
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997