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

STOCKWELL, Gen Sir Hugh Charles (1903-1986)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Stockwell

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

Title: STOCKWELL, Gen Sir Hugh Charles (1903-1986)

Date(s): Created 1923-1987

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 16 boxes or 0.16 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

in 1903; served with 2 Royal Welch Fusiliers; service in West Africa, 1929-1935; instructor at Small Arms School, Netheravon, 1935-1938; Brigade Maj, Royal Welch Brigade, 1938-1940; service in Norway, 1940; service with 30 East African Brigade, 1942-1943; service with 29 Independent Brigade, 1943-1945; commander of 82 (West African) Division, 1945-1946; service in Burma, 1943-1946; commander, Home Counties District, 1946-1947; commander, 6 Airborne Division, Palestine, 1947-1948; Commandant, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1948-1950; Colonel, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1952-1965; 1 Corps, British Army of the Rhine, 1954-1956; Colonel, the Royal Malay Regiment, 1954-1959; Ground Forces, Suez Operation, 1956; Gen, 1957; Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, 1957-1959; Colonel Commandant, Army Air Corps, 1957-1963; Colonel Commandant, Royal Army, 1959-1964; Adjutant General to the Forces, 1959-1960; ADC General to the Queen, 1959-1962; Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, 1960-1964; retired, 1964; died in 1986.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to early career including memoirs covering 1903-1935 and Army Record of Service, 1923-1952; campaign in Norway, World War Two, including War Diary, May 1940, operational orders and diary covering preparation of 2 Independent Company for service in Norway; papers including lecture notes and schedules for courses at Special Training Centre, Inverailort Castle, Loch Ailort, 1940-1941; Madagascar, 1942-1943, including photograph album on service with 2 Company Royal Welch Fusiliers and order of battle for Battle of Majunga, Sep 1942; Burma, 1943-1945, including memoir and photograph album, 29 Brigade, 36 Division, official reports and printed histories including the Arakan campaign; Palestine, 1947-1948 including Operation BROADSIDE, 1946, reports and correspondence; transfer of 6 Airborne Division to British Army of the Rhine, 1947-1948; Malaya, including operational papers, photographs and texts of speeches; Suez Crisis, 1956, including reports, maps, photographs and correspondence; Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, 1960-1964 including photographs; and miscellaneous papers relating to postwar career, including memorial address, 1987.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged chronologically in sections according to military service.

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by Gen Sir Hugh Stockwell in 1981, 1982 and 1985.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: GCB, KBE, DSO

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Airborne warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Armed forces | State security
Maps | Visual materials
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Military education | Higher science education
Mountains | Land forms | Topography | Geomorphology
Operation Broadside (1946) | Military operations | Military engineering
Photographs | Visual materials
Suez Crisis (1956) | Wars (events)
War | International conflicts
War diaries | Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Military training x Military education
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names
Stockwell | Sir | Hugh Charles | 1903-1986 | Knight | General

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Ailort, Loch | Invernessshire | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Inverailort Castle | Invernessshire | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Lochailort | Invernessshire | Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Majunga | Madagascar | East Africa
Malaysia | South East Asia
Norway | Northern Europe | Western Europe | Europe
Philippines | South East Asia
Rhine, river | Western Europe | Europe