IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Carmichael
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: CARMICHAEL, Lt Col Humphrey Rawstorne (1914-1995)
Date(s): Created 1995
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Carmichael | Humphrey Rawstone | 1914-1995 | Lieutenant Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1914; unattached 2nd Lt, 1936; appointed to 17 Dogra Regt, Indian Army, 1937; served in Waziristan, 1937; Lt, 1938; seconded to RAF, 1941-1944; captured by the Japanese Army in Burma, 26 Apr 1943, but escaped 10 days later; Capt, 1944; Maj, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1948; Lt Col, 1951; Deputy Commander, 5 Base Ordnance Depot, Middle East Land Forces, 1954-1955; Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, HQ, Eastern Command, 1957; retired, 1969; died in 1995.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copies of 'The capture and escape of Pilot Officer H R Carmichael, MC, Arakan, Burma, 1943', and an obituary from [Dogra Regiment] magazine, 1995.
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 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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Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1995.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: MC
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997