IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Isacke
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: ISACKE, Maj Gen Hubert (1872-1943)
Date(s): Created 1893-1943
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1½ boxes or 0.015 cubic metres
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CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1872; educated at King's School, Canterbury, Kent, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst;commissioned into The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 1892; served with Malakand Field Force, North West Frontier, India, 1897-1898; Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; Capt, 1902; Brevet Maj, 1902; General Staff Officer 2, War Office, 1910-1912; Maj, 1912; Brevet Lt Col, 1913; Staff College, Quetta, India, 1913-1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Meerut Div, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), 1914-1915; General Staff Officer 1, 14 Div, 1915-1916; awarded CMG, 1915; Director of Staff Duties and Training, Army Headquarters, India, 1916-1920; Col, 1917; awarded CSI, 1919; Bde Commander,India, 1920-1923; awarded CB, 1922; Maj Gen, 1923; District Commander, India, 1925-1927; commanded 56 (1 London) Div, Territorial, Army 1927-1931; retired 1931; died 1943.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
54 manuscript, narrative diaries, relating to Isacke's career in the UK, India, South Africa and France, 1893-1943.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Contained in 54 volumes
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:
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archives/ and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1983.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1998