IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Vallance
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: VALLANCE, Col James Newton (1906-1981)
Date(s): Created 1938-[1943], 1948-1951
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1906; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1939; Maj, 1947; Lt Col commanding Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters, 1951-1955; died in 1981.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his military service, 1938-[1943], 1948-1951, principally comprising papers relating to anti-aircraft searchlight training, 1938-[1943], including 'The training of the anti-aircraft searchlight spotter' by Capt Lancelot Edgar Conhop Mervyn Perowne, reprinted from The Royal Engineers Journal, Sep 1938, and School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and School of Anti-Aircraft Defence course notes and papers, [1939-1943]; military and War Office editions of Ordnance Survey maps of North Midlands, Lincolnshire and East Anglia, 1939, 1941, 1948-1949; 'The officer and fighting efficiency', pamphlet issued by War Office, 1941; notes relating to Company and Battery Commanders' Course No 5, Army School of Chemical Warfare, 1944; 5 Anti-Aircraft Group training directives and operational orders, 1949; orders, instructions and other papers relating to 58 Anti-Aircraft Bde, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) Exercises DERWENT and CORGI, 1950.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
1 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.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and due in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: OBE, TD
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997