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BROWN, Lt Col Arthur Brian (1902-1985)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Brown A B

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

Title: BROWN, Lt Col Arthur Brian (1902-1985)

Date(s): Created 1922, [1948], 1950

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Brown | Arthur Brian | 1902-1985 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1902; 2nd Lt, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1923; Lt, 1925; served on North West Frontier of India 1930-1931; Capt, 1935; Maj, 1940; served with Sudan Defence Force, 1943-1943; served in Normandy, 1944, and Germany, 1945-1947; Lt Col, 1947; served in Malaya, 1947-1951; died in 1985.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his military career, 1922, [1948], 1950, including letter from Maj Gen W Robb relating to Brown's retirement from King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, [1948]; two letters of thanks and congratulation from Gen Sir Allan Francis John Harding, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, 1950; two photographs of Brown in Malaya during Operation NAWAB, [1947-1951], one with Harding, the other in the jungle near Guron.

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 entry 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:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: OBE

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Operation Nawab (1947-1953) | Military operations | Military engineering
Photographs | Visual materials
Warfare | Military engineering
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Brown | Arthur Brian | 1902-1985 | Lieutenant Colonel
Harding | Allan Francis John | 1896-1989 | 1st Baron Harding of Petherton | Field Marshal x Harding of Petherton | 1st Baron
Robb | W | fl 1948 | Major General

Corporate names
British Army
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Places
Malaysia | South East Asia
Thailand | South East Asia