IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Cowan
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: COWAN, Brig Colin Hunter (b 1920)
Date(s): [1985]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Cowan | Colin Hunter | b 1920 | Brigadier
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1920; educated at Wellington College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Trinity College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1940; Lt, 1941; Capt, 1946; Maj, 1953; Lt Col, 1961; Defence Adviser, British Mission to the UN, 1964-1966; Brig, Engineer Plans, Ministry of Defence (Army), 1968-1970; Chief Executive, Cumbernauld Development Corporation, 1970-1985.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Brief account of the visit of AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, to the UN HQ, New York, 1965, written in [1985].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file
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:
Presented to the Centre by Cowan in 1996.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: CBE
Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996