IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Mockler-Ferryman
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: MOCKLER-FERRYMAN, Brig Eric (1896-1978)
Date(s): Created 1914, 1918, [1945]-1978
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1896; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Artillery, 1915; served in France and Belgium, 1915-1919; Instructor, Staff College, Camberley, 1933; seconded to Australian Military Forces, 1937-1939; Head of German Intelligence Section, War Office, 1939-1940; Brig, General Staff (Intelligence), Home Forces,1940-1942; Commander, Royal Artillery, Scottish Command, 1942; Head of Intelligence Section, Allied Force HQ, North Africa, 1942-1943; served with Special Operations Executive, North West Europe, 1943-1945; Control Commission, Hungary, 1945-1946; retired pay, 1947; died in 1978.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his military career, 1914-1945, dated 1914, 1917-1918, [1945]-1978, principally comprising typescript texts of lectures, [1965-1975], on his service with the Australian Military Forces, 1937-1939, the planning and execution of Allied invasion of North Africa, 1942, and his service with the SOE, North West Europe, 1943-1945; correspondence with Sir ArthurWynne Morgan Bryant, 1978, concerning Mockler-Ferryman's service with Maj Gen John Greer Dill, Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, 1933, and Gen Sir Alan Francis Brooke (later FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough), Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, 1940-1941.
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
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by Martin Jones in 1979.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Royal Artillery Institution: World War One diary, 1915-1918, and copy of unpublished personal memoirs. The Imperial War Museum also holds a copy of these memoirs, while the Liddle Collection, Leeds University, holds a copy of the diary.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997