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

POORE, Lt Col Roger Alvin (1870-1917)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Poore R A

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

Title: POORE, Lt Col Roger Alvin (1870-1917)

Date(s): Created 1869-1879, 1893, 1896, 1899-1979

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 10 boxes or 0.1 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1870; served in South Africa, 1899-1902; served with 3 Mounted Infantry Corps, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1900; Resident Magistrate, Heidelberg, 1900-1901; Resident Magistrate, Volksrust, 1901; Resident Magistrate, Krugersdorp, then Deputy Commissioner of Police, Pretoria, 1901-1902; stationed in UK with 2 Bn, 1 Royal Wilts Yeomanry, 1914-1917; joined 1 Bn, 1 Royal Wilts Yeomanry on Western Front, 1917; transferred to 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers; killed in action in Sep 1917.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, 1896-1902, 1908-1918, principally comprising letters to his family, 1896-1902, notably describing his service in operations in Orange Free State and Transvaal, South Africa, 1899-1900; notebook relating to his service in South Africa, 1899-1902, containing copies of brigade and divisional orders, notes on horses health, lists of men killed and financial accounts; 'Notes from beleaguered Kimberley', an account of the siege and relief of Kimberley, Feb 1900, by one of his colleagues, [1900]; letters to his wife, 1913-1917, notably describing his service in the UK, 1914-1917, and on the Western Front, 1917; letters to Poore's wife from Lt Col William Brooksbank Garnett, Commanding Officer, 2nd Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1917-1918, chiefly concerning the circumstances of Poore's death; army message book containing notes on explosives, 1917; photographs of Poore, 1882-1917. Family papers, 1869-1879, 1893, 1899-1979, notably including papers relating to Poore's wife, Mrs Lorne Margery Poore (née Dennistoun), 1869-1879, 1899-1979; correspondence with his sister, Nina Hamilton, wife of Duke of Hamilton, concerning Poore's management of a suspense account established to provide for the Hamilton's children, 1904-1916.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in the following sections: South Africa; management of suspence account; World War One; miscellaneous; photographs; Mrs Lorne Margery Poore.

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:

Detailed catalogue available 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 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Centre also holds the papers of his father, Maj Robert Poore, and his brothers, Brig Gen Robert Montagu Poore and Philip Poore.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: DSO

Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Photographs | Visual materials
Second Boer War, 1899-1902 | Wars (events)
War | International conflicts
Weapons | Military equipment | Equipment
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Garnett | William Brooksbank | fl 1917-1918 | Lieutenant Colonel
Hamilton | Nina Benita | Douglas- | fl 1901-1916 | wife of Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton x Douglas-Hamilton | Nina Benita x Hamilton | Duchess of
Poore | Lorne Margery | fl 1869-1913 | wife of Lieutenant Colonel Roger Alvin Poore
Poore | Roger Alvin | 1870-1917 | Lieutenant Colonel

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Kimberley | South Africa | Southern Africa
Orange Free State | South Africa | Southern Africa
Transvaal | South Africa | Southern Africa