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

LINDSAY, Thomas Graham (1901-1981)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Lindsay

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

Title: LINDSAY, Thomas Graham (1901-1981)

Date(s): Created [1945]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file and 1 volume

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1901; 2nd Lt, Irish Guards, 1922; Lt, 1924; Capt, 1930; ADC to General OfficerCommanding London District, 1932-1934; Adjutant, 1934-1936; Maj, 1939; served as Commander, RAF Regt, North West Europe, 1944-1945; Staff Officer Grade 1 (Education), London District, 1947-[1949]; died in 1981.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service in North West Europe, 1944-1945, dated [1945], comprising 'OperationOVERLORD plus', bound typescript account of his service with the Irish Guards in North West Europe, 1944-1945, written in [1945]; 'The occupation of German airfields in Schleswig Holstein area, May 1945', typescript account by Lindsay of RAF Regt operations in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, May 1945, written in [1945]; typescript account of operations carried out by 1 Commando Bde and 7 Armoured Div, Holland, Jan-Feb 1945, written by [Brig Derek Mills-Roberts in 1945].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file and 1 volume.

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Centre also holds the papers of Brig Derek Mills-Roberts (Ref: GB99 KCLMAMills-Roberts).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Armoured warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Operation Overlord (1944) | Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Roberts | Derek | Mills- | fl 1945 | Brigadier x Mills-Roberts | Derek

Corporate names
British Army
German Air Force x Luftwaffe
RAF | Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force

Places
Schleswig-Holstein | Germany | Western Europe | Europe