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

SCOTT, Lt Col Kenneth Farish (b 1918)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Scott

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

Title: SCOTT, Lt Col Kenneth Farish (b 1918)

Date(s): Created 1993

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1918; educated at Stockton Grammar School and Constantine Technical College; served with Royal Engineers, 1939-1946; engineer in charge of demolition during the SOE attack on the Asopos Viaduct, Greece, May-Jun 1943; joined Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, 1946; Resident Engineer, Hydro-Electric Works, Scotland, 1946-1952; Chief Representative, New Zealand, 1952-1955, and Scotland, 1955-1959; Partner, 1959, and Senior Partner, 1977; responsible for design and supervision of construction of various major water resource development projects, maritime works and international airports.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'The attack on the Asopos Viaduct in German occupied Greece', May-Jun 1943, written in 1993.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

single item

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 and due to be published in hard copy.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by Scott in 1993.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The papers of Brig Edmund Charles Wolf Myers contain additional reports by Scott on the attack, dated 1943 and [1944] (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Myers 16).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Military operations | Military engineering
Special forces | Armed forces | State security
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Greece | Western Europe | Europe