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

COWAN, Brig Colin Hunter (b 1920)


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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
International organizations | International politics
Organizations

Personal names
Cowan | Colin Hunter | b 1920 | Brigadier
Mountbatten | Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas | 1900-1979 | 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Admiral of the Fleet x Mountbatten of Burma | 1st Earl x Battenburg | Prince von

Corporate names
UN | United Nations x United Nations

Places
New York | USA | North America
Americas
Caribbean