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

COUSLAND, Lt Col Kenneth H (fl 1914-1974)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Cousland

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

Title: COUSLAND, Lt Col Kenneth H (fl 1914-1974)

Date(s): 1974

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Cousland | Kenneth H | fl 1915-1974 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Gunner in Edinburgh University Battery, OTC; volunteered for active service and commissioned as 2nd Lt, 1 Lowland Bde, Royal Field Artillery, 1914; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1915; served with Royal Field Artillery on Western Front, 1915-1918.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopy of privately published memoir, 'The Great War, 1914-1818: a former 'Gunner' of the First World War looks back', a detailed account of his military career, 1913-1919, covering mobilisation in Edinburgh, artillery, gas warfare and veterinary training, service with the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front, 1915-1918, notably action around Vimy, May-Jun 1917, Lens, June-Oct 1917, and the Somme front, Feb-Oct 1918, and entry into Lille, Oct 1918, and demobilisation in Brussels, Feb 1919, written in [1974]. Includes reproductions of photographs and extracts from his letters home and his diary.

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre in 1981 from originals loaned by the family.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Artillery | Weapons | Military equipment | Equipment
Gas warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
Surgery | Medical sciences
Veterinary medicine | Medical sciences
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names
Cousland | Kenneth H | fl 1915-1974 | Lieutenant Colonel

Corporate names
British Army
Royal Field Artillery

Places
Brussels | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Lens | France | Western Europe | Europe
Lille | France | Western Europe | Europe
Somme | France | Western Europe | Europe
Vimy | France | Western Europe | Europe