SIMPKIN, Brig Richard Evelyn (1921-1986)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0099 KCLMA Simpkin |
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 | : SIMPKIN, Brig Richard Evelyn (1921-1986) |
Date(s) | : Created 1984, 1986-1987 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 file |
Name of creator(s) | : |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1921; educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge; joined Royal Tank Regt, 1940; served in Western Desert, 1941-1942; wounded and taken prisoner at Tobruk, 1942; escaped to Italy, but recaptured and confined to POW camp in Germany; worked on industrial, technical and economic intelligence in Germany, 1946-1948; graduated from Staff College, 1951, and from Royal Military College of Science, 1953; served on directing staff of Staff College and Royal Military College of Science, 1957-1959; General Staff Officer Grade 1, Equipment Branch, Royal Armoured Corps Directorate, 1960-1963; Officer Commanding 1 Royal Tank Regt, 1963; Military Director of Studies (Weapons and Vehicles), Royal Military College of Science; Brig, 1968; Director, Operational Requirements 3 (Army), Ministry of Defence, 1968-1971; retired from Army, 1971, and developed career as language consultant and translator; publication of Tank warfare, an analysis of Soviet and NATO tank philosophy (Brassey's defence, London, 1979), Mechanised infantry (Brassey's, Oxford, 1980), Anti-tank, an air mechanised response to armoured threats in the Nineties (1982), Human factors in mechanised warfare (1983), Red armour, an examination of Soviet mobile force concept (Brassey's, Oxford, 1984); Race to the swift, thoughts on twenty-first century warfare (Brassey's Defence, London, 1985) and Deep battle, the brain child of Marshall Tukhachevskii (with John Erickson) (Brassey's Defence, London, 1987); died in 1986.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Curriculum vitae covering the period 1940-1984, dated 1984. Order of service of thanksgiving, texts of memorial addresses and letters of condolence to his widow, 1986-1987.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
1 file
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 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 Archive Services.
Finding aids:
Summary guide available 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 1988.
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:
Feb 1997
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