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

LOVELL, Wg Cdr Marcel George Leon (d 1985)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Lovell

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

Title: LOVELL, Wg Cdr Marcel George Leon (d 1985)

Date(s): Created [1939-1945], 1948

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 files

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Served in RAF, [1939-1965]; Flight Lt, 1942; died in 1985.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service in the RAF, [1939-1945], 1948, principally comprising official photographs of radar installations, [1939-1945] and RAF operations rooms, [1939-1945], including photograph of operations room of HQ Fighter Command, RAF Bentley Priory, Stanmore, Middlesex, 1939; typescript notes and diagrams about layout and organisation of RAF sector controloperations rooms, [1939-1945]; official photographs of [RAF station], Wunstorf, Germany, 1948.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

4 files

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:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1986.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air defence | Defence | State security
Armed forces | State security
Photographs | Visual materials
Radar | Measuring instruments | Scientific equipment | Equipment
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Fighter Command
RAF | Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Stanmore | Middlesex | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Wunstorf | Germany | Western Europe | Europe