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

NEWMAN, Colonel Sir Stuart (Richard) (1919-2002)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Newman, S R

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

Title: NEWMAN, Colonel Sir Stuart (Richard) (1919-2002)

Date(s): 1939-1994

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Newman | Sir | Stuart (Richard) | 1919-2002 | Knight | Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1919; worked at Maples department store; joined the Middlesex Yeomanry (TA); commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Kent) after the outbreak of the Second World War, 1939; fought with the 2nd battalion in the Western Desert before being posted to India in 1944 as an instructor at the tactical school; returned to England,1945; served as a company commander and training officer at Eaton Hall Officer Cadet Training Unit, 1945-1948; London Rifle Brigade (TA), 1948; joined the Conservative Party, 1949; recalled to the Regular Army, 1951-1953; commander of the London Rifle Brigade (TA), 1959; second-in-command of the 56th London Infantry Brigade, (TA), 1962; Conservative Party agent for Eton and Slough, Lambeth and Buxton and then London and Westminster; trained Conservative Party agents at Central Office, mid-1960s; assistant to Reginald Maudling, Anthony Barber and William Whitelaw in the 1966 and 1970 elections; retired, 1984; died, 2002.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Colonel Sir Stuart (Richard) Newman, 1916-1994, including call up and telegram, Aug 1939; letters home, [1940-1945]; two portrait photographs, [1940] and [1944]; photograph album, 1941-1942; letter to Newman, Mar 1948, from three former Luxembourg cadets, requesting confirmation of their Officer Cadet Training Unit training under Newman, 1945-1946; White Paper, 'Re-organisation of the army reserves' (HMSO, Dec 1965), and related press statement, Dec 1965, by the Council of Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Associations; correspondence, Mar 1993 - Mar 1994, relating to the future of the Territorial Army; photograph album of Newman's father, Capt Thomas Pacey Newman, 1916-[1924], and photocopy letter from Mrs Newman (wife of Thomas, mother of Stuart), to her son Roland, 9 Jun 1944, with eye witness description of planes and gliders leaving for France, evening of 6 Jun, with transcript.

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 Archive Services and Information Management, King's College London.

Finding aids:

Box list available in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from the family, 2004.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1407299/Sir-Stuart-Newman.html

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: Oct 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Gliders (aeronautics) | Fixed wing aircraft | Aircraft | Vehicles | Transport
Military education | Higher science education
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Military training x Military education

Personal names
Newman | Sir | Stuart (Richard) | 1919-2002 | Knight | Colonel

Corporate names
Territorial Army

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe