IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Barker
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: BARKER, AVM John Lindsay (1910-2004)
Date(s): Created 1945
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Barker | John Lindsay | 1910-2004 | Air Vice Marshal
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1910; educated at Trent College and Brasenose College, Oxford; called to the Bar, Middle Temple, 1947; joined Reserve of Air Force Officers, 1930, and RAF, 1933; served in France, 1939-1940, and North Africa, 1942-1944, and at Bomber Command, 1944-1945; commanded Shield Force, Far East, 1945; served in Far East, 1945-1948; served in Egypt, 1950-1953; Air Attaché, Rome, 1955-1958; Commander, Royal Ceylon Air Force, 1958-1963; AVM, 1959; retired, 1963, died 2004.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Signal from Chiefs of Staff to Barker, 1945, outlining the role of Shield Force in the re-establishment of British administration in Hong Kong.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item.
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 us 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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Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by Barker in 1991.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: CB, CBE, DFC
Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996