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

Misc: The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 8

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

Title: Misc: The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha

Date(s): 1981 (refers to 1939-1940)

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 file (0.01 cubic metres)

Name of creator(s): Trythall | Anthony John | b.1927 | Major General

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1927; educated Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby; St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA Hons Modern History, 1947, Dip Ed 1951); Institute of Education, London Univ. (Academic Dip Ed 1962); King's College, London (MA in War Studies, 1969); National Service as RAEC Officer, UK, Egypt and Akaba, 1947-1949; teaching, 1951-1953; Regular RAEC Officer, 1953; seconded to Malay Regt, 1953-1956; War Office, 1957-1962; British Army of the Rhine, 1962-1966; Inspector, 1967-1968; Education Adviser, Regular Commissions Board, 1969-1971; Head of Officer Education Bridge, 1971-1973; Chief Inspector of Army Education, 1973-1974; MoD, 1974-1976; Chief Education Officer, UKLF, 1976-1980; Col Commandant, RAEC, 1986-1989; Member: Council, Royal United Services Institution for Defence Studies, 1978-1984; Director of Army Education, 1980-84; Chairman, Gallipoli Memorial Lecture Trust, 1986-1989 (Trustee, 1984-); Director: Brassey's (UK) Ltd (formerly Brassey's Defence Publishers Ltd), since 1984 (Managing Director, 1984-1987; Executive Deputy Chairman, 1988-1995); Brassey's (US) Inc., 1984-1995. Pubications Boney Fuller: the intellectual general 1977; contributed to The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha in the Second World War 1982; Fuller and the Tanks in Home Fires and Foreign Fields 1985.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopy of article 'The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha' by Major General Anthony John Trythall, published in the Journal of Contemporary British History Vol 16 (1981), pp.391-411, on the dismissal of (Isaac) Leslie Hore-Belisha (later Baron Hore-Belisha) as Secretary of State for War, Jan 1940

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item

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.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Given by John Lee 2000

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Publication note:

Published in Journal of Contemporary British History Vol 16 (1981), pp.391-411

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Source: Who's Who.