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WALL, Lt Col Richard Gittins (1906-1995)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Wall

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

Title: WALL, Lt Col Richard Gittins (1906-1995)

Date(s): Created [1939-1945]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1906; Controller, Birmingham Division, Great Western Railway; 2nd Lt, Officers' Emergency Reserve, 1940; R[ailway] T[ransportation] O[fficer], Northern France, 1940; Staff Capt, War Office, 1941-1942; Principal Military Landing Officer, 3 British Div, North Africa, [1942]; Principal Military Landing Officer, 78 Div, Sicily, 1943; Landing Officer, 3 Canadian Div, Normandy; died in 1995.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Undated typescript account of his military service, 1940-1944, principally comprising a diary of his work as Landing Officer, 3 Canadian Div, Normandy, on and around D-Day, 5 Jun-5 Sep 1944.

ACCESS AND 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 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 in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Amphibious warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Operation Overlord (1944) | Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Normandy | France | Western Europe | Europe