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

LOVE, Col Stephen (1931-1999)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Love S

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

Title: LOVE, Col Stephen (1931-1999)

Date(s): 1979-1983

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes (0.02 cubic metres)

Name of creator(s): Love | Stephen | 1931-1999 | Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1931; joined Army as National Serviceman, 1949; 2nd Lt 1950; joined Royal Artillery, Lt 1952; temp Capt 1954; Capt 1958; Maj 1965; passed Staff College, 1966; MBE 1970; Lt Col 1971; Col 1978; Defence Attaché, British Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1979-1982; Project Director, 'Falklands Pilgrimage', 1983; died 1999.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Col Stephen Love on his military service, 1979-1983; principally comprising papers (3 files) on his service as Defence Attaché, British Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1979-1982; including details of organisation and deployment of Argentine army and air force; lists of senior army and air force officers; copies of Love's official correspondence on the threat of invasion of the Falkland Islands, Mar-Apr 1982; copy of Love's evidence to the Falklands Islands Review Committee, chaired by Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks, Oct 1982; copies of English and Spanish language newspapers on the Falkland War, Mar-Apr 1982; file of correspondence and album of album of photographs on his work as Project Director of the 'Falklands Pilgrimage' by relatives of British casualties, 1983.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mainly English, some Spanish

System of arrangement:

4 files and 1 photograph album.

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, 2001

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Source Army Lists. 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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Falklands War (1982) | Wars (events)
War | International conflicts
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Love | Stephen | 1931-1999 | Colonel

Corporate names
Falklands Islands Review Committee

Places
Argentina | South America
Falkland Islands | South America