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

ELLIOT, ACM Sir William (1896-1971)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Elliot

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

Title: ELLIOT, ACM Sir William (1896-1971)

Date(s): Created [1914]-1971

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 7.5 boxes or 0.075 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1896; served in Army Service Corps, [1915]-1918, joined No 142 Sqn, 1918; served with No 47 Sqn, South Russia, 1919; Assistant Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence, 1937-1939, and to War Cabinet, 1939-1941; Fighter Command, 1941-1942; Director of Plans, Air Ministry, 1942-1944; Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar, Feb-June 1944; Air Officer CommandingBalkan Air Force, 1944-1945; Assistant Chief Executive, Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1945-1946; Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Policy), 1946-1947; Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command, 1947-1949; Chief Staff Officer to Minister of Defence and Deputy Secretary (Military) to Cabinet, 1949-1951; ADC to King George VI, 1950-1952; Chairman of British Joint Services Mission, Washington, and UK Representative on the Standing Group of the Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1951-1954; ADC to Queen Elizabeth II, 1952-1954; Chairman of Council, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, 1954-1958; died in 1971.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, [1914]-1971, principally comprising flying log book, 1928-1940; papers relating to his work as Assistant Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet, 1939-1941, notably including memoranda to Maj Gen Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1939-1940; papers relating to his service as Air Officer Commanding Balkan Air Force, 1944-1945,dated 1946, 1963, 1966, 1970-1971, notably including an account of the work of the British Military Mission to Yugoslav partisans by Sir Fitzroy Hew Maclean of Dunconnel, 1st Bt, 1971; correspondence and other papers relating to NATO, 1950, 1955, 1967, Army League,1955-1957, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1957, 1958, 1960-1970, English Speaking Union, 1961, 1963, Atlantic Round Table Conference, 1957, and the Brighton Conference Association, 1957. Printed and typescript book reviews and texts of lectures and speeches given by Elliot, mainly concerning international relations, 1924, 1939, 1946, 1950-1966; correspondence and related papers,1937-1940, 1950-1953, 1957-1971, notably including correspondence with Dean Acheson, 1961-1970, Gen (Walter) Bedell Smith, 1959-1961, Lady (Helen) Violet Bonham-Carter, 1962-1968, Ismay, 1959-1970, Gen Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, 1961-1971, Gen Karel Janousek, 1968, and Capt Stephen Wentworth Roskill, 1966-1970; photographs, [1914-1960], notably relating to service in South Russia,1919, as Air Officer Commanding RAF Gibraltar, 1944, with Balkan Air Force, 1944-1945 and as Commander-in-Chief, Fighter Command, 1948-1949, including aerial photographs of RAF actions over Yugoslavia, 1944-1945.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in sections as follows: papers and memoranda; articles and speeches by Elliot; articles by others; named correspondence files; personal correspondence; family correspondence; miscellaneous; photographs.

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 provided forresearch use only. Requests to publish original material should besubmitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line athttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre'sreading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1976.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Papers of Sir Henry Thomas Tizard at the Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum, includecorrespondence with Elliot, 1938-1957 (Ref: HTT).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Alliances | Foreign relations | International relations
Armed forces | State security
Liberation movements | Political movements
Military missions | Diplomacy | Foreign relations | International relations
Occupied territories | Humanitarian law
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Military organizations

Personal names
Acheson | Dean Gooderham | 1893-1971 | US Secretary of State
Ismay | Hastings Lionel | 1887-1965 | 1st Baron Ismay of Wormington | General x Ismay of Wormington | 1st Baron
Jackson | Sir | Henry Cholmondeley | 1879-1972 | Knight | General
Maclean | Sir | Fitzroy Hew | 1911-1996 | 1st Baronet Maclean of Dunconnel x Maclean of Dunconnel | 1st Baronet
Roskill | Stephen Wentworth | 1903-1982 | Captain | historian
Smith | Walter Bedell | 1895-1961 | US General and diplomat

Corporate names
Balkan Air Force
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization x North Atlantic Treaty Organization
RAF | Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force

Places