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

OAKEY, Maj John Martin (1888-1963)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Oakey

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

Title: OAKEY, Maj John Martin (1888-1963)

Date(s): 1915-1959

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1.5 boxes or 0.015 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Oakey | John Martin | 1888-1963 | businessman and public servant | Major

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1888, educated, Trinity College Cambridge; called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, 1912; served with Rifle Bde, Western Front, 1915-1916; served with No 1 Special Company, Royal Engineers, 1916; Artists Rifles, 1920-1940; Royal Engineers, 1940; Ships Adjutant, Troop Ships, 1942-1945; Alderman, London County Council (LCC), 1931-1949; member, LCC, 1949-1958; Deputy Chairman, LCC, 1947-1948; Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice for the Peace, County of London; Chairman, John Oakey & Sons Ltd; Chairman of National Heart Hospital and Tooting Bec Hospital, 1951; died, 1963.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Capt John Martin Oakey, 1915-1959, including correspondence; accounts of service, 1914-1918; war diaries, 1939-1947, including of 7 Bn, Rifle Bde, 1915-1916 and No 1 and No 3 Special Companies, Royal Engineers, 1916- 1919; photographs; sketches; and postcards from his service in World Wars One and Two.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Original order

Conditions governing access:

Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an 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 Archives and Information Management, King's College London.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received by LHCMA, Jul 1985.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Who's Who

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

Personal names
Oakey | John Martin | 1888-1963 | businessman and public servant | Major

Corporate names
Royal Engineers

Places