IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Ridley, D D
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: RIDLEY, Col Dan Dunglinson (1916-2006)
Date(s): 1945, [1970]
Level of description: collection level
Extent: 1 file or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s): Ridley | Dan Dunglinson | 1916-2006 | Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1916, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; Staff Training College, Camberley, 1939; Royal Artillery, 1940-1945; General Staff Officer, Military Government of the Greater Berlin Area, Germany, 1945-1946; Staff Captain, Department of the Adjutant General of the Forces, War Office, 1947-1948; Captain, Royal Artillery, 1949; Major 1952; Colonel, 1964; Military Attaché, Warsaw, Poland, 1965; retired 1970; died 2006.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copies of papers relating to service of Colonel Dan Dunglinson Ridley, Berlin, Germany, 1945-46. Diary kept during work with American military government detachment in Remschied, Germany, assessing local infrastructure, May 1945. Account, written after his retirement, 1970, of his work for the Military Government of the Greater Berlin Area (MGGBA) administrating the Wilmersdorf District, British Sector, Berlin, Germany, under Lieutenant Colonel "Fritz" Norman (Dudley Stewart Norman, East Yorkshire Regiment), describing problems of liaison with occupying Russian forces and assessing former civilian members of Nazi party before allocating jobs; and account of work in Military Government Headquarters, Charlottenburg District, British Sector, under command of Brigadier "Loony" Hinde (Sir William Robert Norris Hinde); dealing with running of the city and describing social conditions for civilian population. Also original pass issued by Russian Army to allow free passage in Wilmersdorf District, Berlin, Germany.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One file as outlined 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:
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family, Apr 2007
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Originals retained by family.
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.
Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2007