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

TAYLOR, Lt Garth Smithies (1896-1916)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Taylor

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

Title: TAYLOR, Lt Garth Smithies (1896-1916)

Date(s): Created 1914-1917, 1959, 1971

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1896; educated at Bedales School, Petersfield and Nottingham High School; studied accounting in London, then worked for a firm of camera and lens makers in Berlin; joined Army Service Corps as a clerk, 1914; 2nd Lt and Lt, 1915; transferred to 2 Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt); served in France, 1915-1916; killed in action, 1916.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'Garth Smithies Taylor, 1896-1916', written by his sister Dorothea Taylor in 1971, and principally comprising copies of original documents, 1914-1917 and 1959, mainly letters to his family, 1914-1916, and extracts from his diary, 1914-1916, relating particularly to his service near Ypres, 1916, and in the Battle of the Somme, 1916.

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.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1974.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1996.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Somme | France | Western Europe | Europe
Ypres | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe