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

HUTTON, Lt Gen Sir Thomas Jacomb (1890-1981)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Hutton

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

Title: HUTTON, Lt Gen Sir Thomas Jacomb (1890-1981)

Date(s): Created 1914-1977

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 boxes or 0.04 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1890; educated at Rossall and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into the Army as 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1909; service on the Western Front, World War One, 1914-1918; Capt, 1915; Brevet Maj, 1918; General Staff Officer, Grade 3, 1918; Brigade Maj, 1918-1919; Assistant Military Secretary, 1919-1920; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, War Office,1923-1924; General Staff Officer, Grade 2, Eastern Command, 1924-1926; Maj, 1927; Military Assistant to Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1927-1930; Col, 1930; General Staff Officer Grade 1, Military Operations, 1933-1936; served in Palestine, 1936; General Staff Officer Grade1, 1 Division, 1936-1938; Maj Gen, 1938; General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India, 1938-1940; Deputy Chief of General Staff, Army HQ, India, 1940-1941; Lt Gen and Chief of General Staff, India, 1941; General Officer Commanding Burma, 1942; Secretary of War Resources and Reconstruction Committees of Council, India, 1942-1944; Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery,1942-1952; retired, 1944; Officiating Secretary, Viceroy's Executive Council, and Secretary of Planning and Development Department, 1944-1946; Regional Officer, Ministry of Health, 1947-1949; General Manager, Anglo-American Council on Productivity, 1949-1953; Director, British Productivity Council, 1953-1957; Chairman of Organisation and Methods Training Council, 1957-1964; died in 1981.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers dated 1914-1919 relating to service on Western Front, World War One including typescript memoir. Papers and correspondence relating to first Burma campaign and fall of Rangoon, Jan 1939-Jan 1944, including plan dated 1942 for possible offensive against the Japanese, cooperation between British and Chinese troops and reports on operations; copy correspondence of Gen Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief of India, used to compile the official history of the campaign inBurma, 1941-1955; published articles on the Burma campaign by British officers, 1942-1944; correspondence and unpublished manuscripts relating to histories of the Burma campaign, 1942-1978, including narrative of evacuation of Burma by Col J S Vorley dated 1953 and Hutton's memoir 'Rangoon 1941-1942' dated 1974; transcript of interview for Imperial War Museum relating to mechanisation of the British Army, 1919-1939.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Rearranged chronologically into sections according to military service. Papers relating to histories of the Burma campaign and the Imperial War Museum have been grouped separately.

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:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue available on line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and also in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by Lt Gen Sir Thomas Hutton in 1975 and 1976 and by his executors in1987.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Correspondence between Lt Gen Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton and Liddell Hart, 1928-1948, with anobituary of Lady Hutton, is contained in the Liddell Hart papers (LIDDELL 1/393 1928-1948, 1960); correspondence between Lt Gen Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton and Maj Gen Sir John Noble Kennedy, Nov 1940-Dec 1943, is contained in the Kennedy papers (KENNEDY 4/3). The papers of Maj Gen Stanley Woodburn Kirby cover the period of Hutton's service in Burma.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Interviews | Field work | Research work
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Military history | History
Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names
Vorley | J S | fl 1953 | Colonel
Wavell | Archibald Percival | 1883-1950 | 1st Earl Wavell | Field Marshal x Wavell | 1st Earl

Corporate names
British Army
Chinese Army
Japanese Army

Places
India | South Asia
Rangoon | Myanmar | South East Asia