IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Holt-Wilson
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: HOLT-WILSON, Brig Sir Eric Edward Boketon (1875-1950)
Date(s): 1999
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 1 volume or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s): Holt-Wilson | Sir | Eric Edward Boketon | 1875-1950 | Knight | Brigadier
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1875; educated Harrow and Royal Military Academy Woolwich; commissioned as Second Lieutenant, 1895; posted to South Africa with the 7 Field Regiment, Royal Engineers, 1899-1902; Instructor, School of Military Engineering, 1903-1906; Cadet Company Commander and Instructor in Military Engineering, Woolwich Royal Military Academy, 1909-1912; Imperial Security Intelligence Service, 1912-1940; Inter-Allied Intelligence Bureau, Paris, 1915; Lieutenant Colonel, 1917; Chief of Civil Police Commission, British Occupied Rhineland, 1919; Joint Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Committee on War and Emergency Legislation, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1924-1938; Deputy Commandant, War Department Constabulary, 1927-1942; British Delegate for Navy, Army and Air Force, International Convention on Treatment of Prisoners, Geneva, 1929; Visiting Lecturer, Staff College Camberley, 1921-1939; Second in Command, MI5, 1931-1940; Honorary Brigadier, 1939; retired, 1940; died, 1950.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Book War Letters to T.H.W. from South Africa, 1899-1902, E.H.W., edited by Clemency Holt-Wilson (Redwood Books: Wiltshire, 1999). The book comprises detailed letters written by Eric Holt-Wilson to his father, the Reverend Thomas Holt-Wilson, during the Second Boer War, Jul 1899-Aug 1902, describing: preparations before the outbreak of war, Jul-Oct, 1899; establishing defences at De Aar, Cape Colony, Oct-Nov 1899; battles at Modder River, Magersfontein and Paardeberg Drift under FM Lord Paul Methuen, Nov 1899-March 1900; constructing defences and maintaining the railway in the Johannesberg-Pretoria region under FM Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts and Maj Gen Ian Hamilton, Apr-Dec 1900; and in Bloemfontein and Springfontein, Dec 1900-Aug 1902.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 volume
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, Oct 2006.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The Robertson papers contain correspondence between Robertson and Holt-Wilson regarding the number of US divisions in France on 1 Jun 1918, 1924 (Ref: Robertson 7/10/15), and the Foulkes papers contain correspondence with Holt-Wilson relating to the German spy Peroti, 1935 (Ref: Foulkes 10/10).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: CMG, DSO
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sept 2007