IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Connell
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: CONNELL, Lt Col James Charles Walter (1877-1958)
Date(s): 1916
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Connell | James Charles Walter | 1877-1958 | Lieutenant Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1877; 2nd Lt, King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1897; served with Tirah Expedition Force, North West Frontier of India, 1897-1898; Lt, 1898; Capt, 1901; served in South Africa, 1902; Adjutant, Volunteers, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, 1903-1905 and 1907-1908; Adjutant, Territorial Force, 1908-1911; Adjutant, Officers Training Corps, 1913-1914; Maj, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commanded 7 Bn Kings Own Scottish Borderers, 1915-1916; 2nd in Command, Officers Cadet Bn, 1917-1918; died in 1958.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copy of field service log book recording service of 8 Bn, Gordon Highlanders and 6 Bn, Royal Scots Fusiliers (commanded by Lt Col Winston Spencer Churchill, Ypres, Belgium, Jan-Mar 1916.
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 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:
Copy made by the Centre from original loaned by the family in 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: OBE, DSO
Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1996