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STEVENSON-HAMILTON, Lt Col Vivian Edgar Olmar (1907-1986)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Stevenson-Hamilton

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

Title: STEVENSON-HAMILTON, Lt Col Vivian Edgar Olmar (1907-1986)

Date(s): Created [1941], 1942, [1944], 1947, 1962-1964, 1970, 1973,

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 files

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1907; commissioned into Army, 1926; served with 4 Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, 1927-1947; Lt, 1928; Capt, 1935; ADC to Sir Henry (Duffield) Craik, Bt, Governor of Punjab, 1935-[1939]; served in India and Italy, 1944; Commandant, Garlochhead Training Camp, Helensburgh, 1962-1964; died in 1986.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service in the Indian Army, dated [1941], 1942, [1944], 1947, 1962-1964, 1970, 1973, 1984, principally comprising photographs of convoys at Sarwekai on the route between Mangai and Wana, South Wazaristan, India, [1941]; operation instructions for 50 Parachute Bde exercise in Tughlakabad area, India, Mar 1942; 'Some notes on Gurkhas', typescript text by Stevenson-Hamilton, 1943; typescript account of the service of 4 Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles, India, 1943-1944, written by Stevenson-Hamilton in [1944]; typescript account of the service of 2 Bn, 4 Prince of Wales' Own Gurkha Rifles, Italy, 1944, written by [Stevenson-Hamilton] in [1944]; unsigned official notes on a tour of Arakan by 98 Indian Infantry Bde, Burma, 1944; 71 Indian Infantry Bde instructions for operations in Maungdaw, Burma, Apr 1944; typescript text on Gurkha operations in Wazaristan and the Punjab, India, 1947, and on the proposed transfer of Gurkha regiments to the British Army, 1947; notebook containing notes on misdemeanours and crimes committed by soldiers at Garlochhead Training Camp, Helensburgh, 1962-1964.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

3 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 provided 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, and 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 1987.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial forces | Armed forces | State security
Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
Warfare | Military engineering
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army
Indian Army

Places
Garlochhead | Rhu | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Helensburgh | Rhu | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Italy | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Maungdaw | Arakan | Myanmar | South East Asia
Punjab | South Asia
Tughlakabad | India | South Asia
Wana | Pakistan | South Asia
Waziristan | Pakistan | South Asia