IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Liardet
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: LIARDET, Maj Gen Henry Maughan (`Bill') (1906-1996)
Date(s): 1943, 1996
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 1 file or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s): Liardet | Henry Maughan (`Bill') | 1906-1996 | Major General
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1906; son of Major General Sir Claude Francis Liardet; educated at Bedford College; commissioned into Territorial Army, 1924; regular commission, Royal Tank Corps, 1927; served in India and Egypt, 1927-1938; Staff College, Camberley, 1939; served in War Office 1939-1941; commanded 6 Royal Tank Regiment, 1942-1944; General Staff Officer 1, 10 Armoured Division, El Alamein, 1942; Commander, 1 Armoured Replacement Group, 1944; Second in Command, 25 Tank Brigade (later Assault Brigade), 1944-1945; Commander, 25 Armoured Engineer Brigade, Apr-Sep 1945; Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General 1945-1946; Colonel in Command of Administration, 1946; served with 1 Armoured Division, Palestine, 1947; Brigadier, Royal Armoured Corps, Middle East Land Forces, 1947-1949; Commander, 8 Royal Tank Regiment, 1949-1950; Deputy Director of Manpower Planning, War Office, 1950-1952; Commander, 23 Armoured Brigade, 1953-1954; Imperial Defence College, 1955; Chief of Staff, British Joint Services Mission (Army Staff), Washington DC, USA, 1956-1958; Aide de Camp to the Queen, 1956-1958; Director General of Fighting Vehicles, War Office, 1958-1961; Deputy Master General of the Ordnance, War Office, 1961-1964; retired, 1964; Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Regiment, 1961-1967; died 1996.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopy manuscript letter giving detailed account of operations as commander, 6 Royal Tank Regiment, Gazala Line, Libya, 15 May-14 June 1942, written to his wife from Iraq, 18 Feb 1943; also copy of article, `The Gazala Battles' by Rear Admiral Guy Liardet (son), printed in TANK regimental magazine, Aug 1996.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file as set out above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.
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 Archives and Information Management.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 2006.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Original letter remains in possession of the family.
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Maj Gen Sir Claude Francis Liardet, 1931-1966, and with Maj Gen Henry Maughan (Bill) Liardet, 1949-1966 (Refs: KCLMA LH 1/445; LH2L/101/1-2 1949). Papers of Sir Harold English Pyman include correspondence with Maj Gen Henry Maughan (Bill) Liardet, 1963 (Ref: KCLMA Pyman 13/1/8-9) and correspondence between Pyman and Col P H Hordern, regimental Col Commandant, Royal Tank Regt, Maj Gen Henry Maughan (Bill) Liardet and others relating to the Royal Tank Regt, primarily on administrative matters, 1961-1963 (Ref: KCLMA Pyman 13/1/8).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.
Date(s) of descriptions: Dec 2006