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
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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