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

BOMFORD, Col Guy (1899-1996)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Bomford

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

Title: BOMFORD, Col Guy (1899-1996)

Date(s): Created 1945

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Bomford | Guy | 1899-1996 | Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1899; 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers; Lt, 1918; served in France and Belgium, 1918; served with Deputy Assistant Director of Engineering Stores, 1919; served in Waziristan, 1919-1921; Capt, 1926; Maj 1936; Lt Col 1942; Col, 1942; retired, 1949; died in 1996.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of account of the Survey Service of the Eastern and 14 Army in India and Burma during the period 1942-1945, written in 1945.

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 at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copy made by the Centre in 1981 from original loaned by Bomford.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Geodetic Library, Ministry of Defence holds another copy of the report, together with some related correspondence.

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: OBE, DSC

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Surveying

Personal names
Bomford | Guy | 1899-1996 | Colonel

Corporate names
British Army

Places
India | South Asia
Myanmar | South East Asia