IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Campbell
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: CAMPBELL, Maj Gen Lorn Henry Dick (1846-1913)
Date(s): Created 1868-1914
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 vols
Name of creator(s): Campbell | Lorn Henry Dick | 1846-1913 | Major General
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1846; entered Indian Army, 1863; Col, 1895; served on North West Frontier of India, 1868, in Afghan War, 1878-1879, and in Waziristan, India, 1881, China, 1900-1901, and India, 1901-1903; retired, 1903; died in 1913.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his life and military career, 1868-1914, principally comprising press cuttings relating to his service in the Afghan War, 1878-1879, and in Waziristan, India, 1881, and China, 1900-1901; photographs relating to his service in China, 1900-1901; typescript translations of letters from Chinese General Li-Antang to Adm Sir James Andrew Thomas Bruce, regarding the surrender of forts by Chinese forces during the Boxer Rebellion, 1900.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Mainly English, but some Chinese
System of arrangement:
2 vols
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 entry available on-lien 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: CB
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997