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LANGLANDS, Brig Eric Wilfrid (1897-1995)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Langlands

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

Title: LANGLANDS, Brig Eric Wilfrid (1897-1995)

Date(s): Created [1957-1977], 1984, [1985], 1988

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

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CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1897; 2nd Lt, North Staffordshire Regt, 1916; Lt, Indian Army, 1918; Capt, 1919; General Staff Officer Grade 3, India, 1924-1927; General Staff Officer Grade 2, India, 1927-1928; Maj, 1933; Lt Col, 1939; died in 1995.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers relating to his service in the Indian Army, 1918-1947, dated [1957-1977], 1984, [1985], 1988, principally comprising typescript notes for a talk on the Pakistani-Afghan border, 1957; a typescript account of his service with the Gurkha Rifles, North West Frontier, India, 1921-1923, written in [1957-1977]; 'A Gurkha in Rajputana', a typescript account of his servicein the Indian Army, 1930-1935, written in [1977]; 'Last days of the Raj', a typescript account of his experiences in India in 1947, written in [1985]; 'Mutiny in the Himalaya', a typescript text concerning the attempted mutiny of the state army of Chamba, India in 1926, [1926].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 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:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial conflicts | Colonial countries | Political systems
Colonial forces | Armed forces | State security
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army
Indian Army

Places
Afghanistan | Middle East
Chamba | India | South Asia
Pakistan | South Asia
Rajasthan | India | South Asia
Rajputana x Rajasthan