IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Mostyn-Owen
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: MOSTYN-OWEN, Col Herbert Louis (1895-1972)
Date(s): Created 1965
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
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CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1895; joined Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, 1915; served in Egypt and Palestine, 1916; Lt, 19 Lancers (Indian Army), 1917; Capt, 1920; ADC to Viceroy of India, 1922-1925; Adjutant, Viceroy's Bodyguard, 1926-1927; Commandant, Madras Bodyguard, 1931-1933; Maj, 1934; Commandant, Viceroy's Bodyguard, 1936-1942; raised and commanded 75 Cavalry, 1942-1946; died in1972.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
'India remembered', a typescript account of political and military life in India during the period 1920-1939, drawn partly from his experiences in the Indian Army, 1917-1946, written in 1965.
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 available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, anddetailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by Mostyn-Owen in 1965.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 1996