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

WOODS, Col Arthur Graham (fl 1943-1945)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Woods A G

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

Title: WOODS, Col Arthur Graham (fl 1943-1945)

Date(s): Created 1943-1945

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Served with Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, [1943-1945].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1943-1945, principally comprising official report by [Woods] on waterproofing technology, 1945; official reports on the waterproofing of 'A' and 'B' vehicles and equipment, 1943-1945, by Brig Hugh Roberts Howard, Deputy Director Mechanical Engineering (Wading), War Office, 1944-1945; 'Waterproofing of army equipment for amphibious operations', official report by Woods, [1943-1945]; photographs of wading tests on army vehicles, 1944; Combined Operations pamphlets on the responsibilities of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1944, and the waterproofing of vehicles and equipment, 1944; 'The Army waded ashore', a typescript account of the role of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in the preparations for D Day, 6 Jun 1944, written by Woods in [1944-1945].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

0.5 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 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 1982.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: DS0, MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Amphibious warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Armed forces | State security
Military equipment | Equipment
Motor vehicles | Vehicles | Transport
Operation Overlord (1944) | Military operations | Military engineering
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Electrical engineering
International relations
Mechanical engineering
Military organizations

Personal names
Howard | Hugh Roberts | b 1894 | Brigadier

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Normandy | France | Western Europe | Europe