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THORNYCROFT, Lt Col Charles Mytton (1879-1948)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Thornycroft, C M

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

Title: THORNYCROFT, Lt Col Charles Mytton (1879-1948)

Date(s): 1900-1902

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 file (0.01 cubic metres)

Name of creator(s): Thorneycroft | Charles Mytton | 1879-1948 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1879, educated at Eton College and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Lt, Mounted Infantry Company, 2nd Btn Manchester Regiment in South Africa, 1899-1901; on half pay 1901-1914. Capt 1903; recalled 1914, to command F Company, 3rd Btn, Manchester Regiment; served in France with 2nd Btn, Dec 1914-Sep 1915; Maj (Special Reserve) Feb 1915; invalided back to Britain, Sep 1915; Adjutant, 3rd Btn, Manchester Regiment (a holding Btn) Oct 1915-Feb 1917; DSO, 1916; posted to 2/9th Btn in France as second-in-command, Feb 1917; commanded 2/9th Btn Mar-Aug 1917; commanded 3rd Btn in England, Aug 1917-Nov 1918; CBE 1919; died 1948.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopies of typescript copies of 84 letters from Lt Col Charles Mytton Thornycroft to his mother, Edith Frances Thornycroft (nee Cresswell), of Thornycroft Hall, Cheshire, from South Africa 19 Mar 1900 - 10 June 1902; includes voyage to South Africa on SS BAVARIAN; service at Magershoe Camp, Reddersburg, ; Dewetsdorp, Orange Free State; Bloemfontein Hospital, following attack of dysentery, including letter from Catherine Friend, the Sister in charge of sick officers; Winburgh Hospital, Norval's Point; The Glen, Orange River Colony; Harrisburg, Orange River Colony; Elands River; Ficksburg; Brindisi, Near Fouriesberg; Harrismith, Orange River Colony; Albertina, Orange River Colony; Oliver's Hoek, Orange River Colony and Barberton

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

one 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:

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Photocopies presented by family, Nov 1999

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Originals retained by family

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Ref GB 0099) holds memoir by Thornycroft's son, Capt Nigel Mytton Thornycroft on his experiences as a prisoner of war, 1944

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Information supplied by family. Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001


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