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

MAZE, Paul Lucien (1887-1979)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Maze

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

Title: MAZE, Paul Lucien (1887-1979)

Date(s): Created 1914-1975

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 files

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1887; served in World War One, 1914-1918, unofficially with Royal Scots Greys, later with French Army on reconnaissance work; served in World War Two, 1939-1945, in Home Guard and as personal Staff Officer to ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris; appointed by Bomber Commander to help investigate the effects of British bombing raids on German towns, 1945; retiredfrom Army, 1945; established international reputation as painter; died in 1979.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers collected or created by Maze, 1914-1975, principally comprising correspondence with his World War One colleagues, 1918-1972, mainly relating to the second Battle of the Somme, 21 Mar-5 Apr 1918, and including letters from Gen Sir Hubert (de la Poer) Gough, 1918-1919, 1935, 1939, 1951, 1954-1956, 1963, Lt Gen Sir (Arthur) Edward Grasett, 1965, 1970, and LtGen Sir Frederick Ivor Maxse, 1919; photographs of Maze, 1914-[1918] and Gough, 1915; correspondence with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill concerning the Home Guard, 1943; photographs of ACM Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1944; two typescript lists ofGerman towns attacked by British bombers, 1945.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

2 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:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Aerial bombardment | Air warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Air defence | Defence | State security
Armed forces | State security
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Churchill | Sir | Winston Leonard Spencer | 1874-1965 | Knight | statesman
Gough | Sir | Hubert de la Poer | 1870-1963 | Knight | General
Grasset | Sir | Arthur Edward | 1888-1971 | Knight | Lieutenant General
Harris | Sir | Arthur Travers | 1892-1984 | Knight | Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Maxse | Sir | Frederick Ivor | 1862-1958 | Knight | General

Corporate names
British Army
French Army

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Somme, river | France | Western Europe | Europe