RUSBRIDGE, Col Robert Alfred (1889-1981)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Rusbridge
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: RUSBRIDGE, Col Robert Alfred (1889-1981)
Date(s)	: Created [1931-1936], 1940, 1942-1943, ND
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 0.75 box or 0.0075 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1889; Army Schoolmaster, 1918-1921; 2nd Lt, Army Educational Corps, 1921; Lt, 1923; Capt, 1931; Instructor, Army School of Education, 1931-1936; Maj, 1943; Education Officer, Northern Command, 1947-[1949]; Col, 1949; died in 1981.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, [1931-1936], 1940, 1942-1943, principally comprising 'The army instructor or the instructor and the soldier' and 'The art of lecturing', typescript texts by [Rusbridge], [1931-1936]; detailed lecture notes, [1931-1936], notably on teaching methods and psychology, [1931-1936]; typescript summaries of lectures on psychology by Capt Frederick Wren, delivered at the Army School of Education, Shorncliffe, [1931-1936]; 'Education in the war-time army', printed leaflet issued by the War Office, 1940; bound volume of Current Affairs, journal issued by Army Bureau of Current Affairs, vol 2 nos 27-52, Sep 26 1942-Sep 25 1943. 'Reproductions of water colour drawings of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst', privately printed pamphlet, ND.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

0.75 box

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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 Archive Services.

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma.top.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Jul 1997