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

BRIDGEMAN, Maj Gen Robert Clive, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman (1896-1982)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Bridgeman

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

Title: BRIDGEMAN, Maj Gen Robert Clive, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman (1896-1982)

Date(s): 1928-1978

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Bridgeman | Robert Clive | 1896-1982 | 2nd Viscount Bridgeman | Major General

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1896; educated at Eton; 2nd Lt, the Rifle Brigade, 1914; served in France, World War One, 1915-1918; Lt, 1916; Private Secretary to his father when Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Labour, 1918; Capt, 1921; Brevet Maj, 1932; Brigade Maj, 7 Infantry Brigade, 1932-1934; Brevet Lt Col, 1935; General Staff Officer Grade 2, War Office, 1935-1937; retired pay, 1937; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Deputy Director, Home Guard and acting Maj Gen, 1941; Director General, Home Guard and Territorial Army, 1941-1944; Col and temporary Maj Gen, 1942; Deputy Adjutant General, 1944-1945; President of West Midland Territorial Army and Volunteer Reserve Association, 1968-1969; died in 1982.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers including maps, relating to operations of British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, 1940-1941; Staff College study of Italian campaign, 1915; papers including those by Maj Gen G M Lindsay relating to armoured support for 7 Infantry Brigade, 1933-1934; appendix, including maps of Britain annotated for exercises including SPARTAN, 1943; correspondence dated 1977-1978 with Martin Alexander of St Antony's College, Oxford including Franco-British military relations, 1939-1940; notes of conversation in 1975 with Dr A W J Houghton relating to the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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 in 1965 and in 1978 by Bridgeman.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The papers of Maj Gen George Mackintosh Lindsay are held as part of the papers of Capt Sir Basil Liddell Hart within the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: KBE, CB, DSO, MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armoured forces | Armed forces | State security
Maps | Visual materials
Operation Spartan (1943) | Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Alexander | Martin | fl 1977-1978 | historian
Bridgeman | Robert Clive | 1896-1982 | 2nd Viscount Bridgeman | Major General x Bridgeman | 2nd Viscount
Houghton | A W J | fl 1975 | historian
Lindsay | George Mackintosh | 1880-1956 | Major General

Corporate names
British Army
British Expeditionary Force

Places
Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Dunkirk | France | Western Europe | Europe
Italy | Western Europe | Europe