IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Ferrier
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: FERRIER, Maj Gen James Archibald (1854-1934)
Date(s): c 1920, 1995
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: one file
Name of creator(s): Ferrier | James Archibald | 1854-1934 | Major General
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1854; educated, St James' School , Jersey and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Lt, Royal Engineers (RE), 1873; Capt, 1885; Adjutant, Royal Engineers, 1888-1892; Maj, 1892; Lt Col, 1898; Afghanistan, 1878-1880; Sudan (Nile) Expedition, 1884-1885; Sudan, 1885-1886; Tirah and North West Frontier Expedition, India, 1897-1898; Col, 1903; Commanding Troops, Natal, 1904; Chief Engineer, Coastal Defence, Eastern Command 1905-1908; Commandant, School of Military Engineering and Commander, Royal Engineers Depot, 1908-1910; Maj Gen, 1910; General Officer Commanding troops in Sierra Leone, 1911-1914; Garrison Commander, Humber Defences, 1915-1917; retired, 1917; died 1934.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Unpublished memoir of the life and military career of Maj Gen James Archibald Ferrier including: service with Royal Engineers, India, 1875-1878; Afghanistan, 1878-1880; Sudan (Nile) Expedition, 1884-1885; Sudan, 1885-1886; Tirah and North West Frontier Expedition, India, 1897-1898; Natal, 1904; Sierra Leone, 1911-1914; UK, 1915-1917. Includes epilogue and notes written by Ferrier's grandson, James Llay Ferrier, 1995.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a letter of introduction.
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 Corporate Records Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection level description online.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in centre by family Nov 2003
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by James Pugh.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2004