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

MORGAN, Col Cyril (1924-1993)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Morgan

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

Title: MORGAN, Col Cyril (1924-1993)

Date(s): 1943-[1978]

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 5 boxes (0.05 cubic metres)

Name of creator(s): Morgan | Cyril | 1924-1993 | Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1924; joined the Army and trained at the Army Apprentice College, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service with the Glider Pilot Regt, 1943-1949; served at Arnhem, the Netherlands, Operation MARKET GARDEN, Sep 1944; service in India and Palestine, 1945-1949; commissioned into the South Wales Borderers, 1951; served in British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, Eritrea and Malaya, 1951-1957; Capt, 1952; student at Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1957; Headquarters, British Corps, Germany, 1957-1959; Maj, 1959; seconded to Nigerian Army, 1959; served in operations in the Cameroons [1961] and with UN Forces, Belgian Congo [1962-1964]; Staff Officer, UK [1964-1965]; Lt Col, 1965; Commanding Officer, Infantry Training Depot, UK, from 1965; commanded British Army Training Team, Jamaica, 1968; Col, 1969; Commandant, Non Commissioned Officer's Wing, School of Infantry, Warminster, Wiltshire, 1969-1972; retired 1974; died 1993.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Col Cyril Morgan, 1943-[1978],comprising flying log books, 1943-1949; letters home from India, 1945-1947; correspondence and typescript reports relating to service in the Cameroons, the Belgian Congo [1962-1964] and Jamaica, 1968; typescript memoirs, with Curriculum Vitae [1978]; training manuals; printed Ordnance Survey maps of the UK [1965-1972]; printed Iranian pro-Shah propaganda material [1967].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The papers are arranged in sections as outlined 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.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1995.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1998


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