IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Clive P A
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: CLIVE, Capt Percy Archer (1873-1918)
Date(s): Created 1897, 1899-1901
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1.5 boxes or 0.015 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Clive | Percy Archer | 1873-1918 | Captain
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1873; entered Grenadier Guards, 1891; served in West Africa, 1897; Capt, 1899; served in South Africa, 1899-1901; MP (Liberal Unionist) for South Herefordshire, 1900-1906; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rt Hon (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer; MP (Unionist) for South Herefordshire, 1908-1918; rejoined Grenadier Guards, 1914; commanded 7 Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment, 1916-1918; died in 1918.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his service in West Africa, 1897, comprising his diary, 1897; glass lantern slides, 1897. Papers relating to his service in South Africa, 1899-1901, notably including diary, Dec 1899-Jun 1900, describing operations in Orange Free State and Transvaal, Dec 1899-Jun 1900; letter books containing transcriptions of letters [to his family] describing operations in Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Province, Dec 1899-Sep 1901.
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:
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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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1976.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 1997