IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Drake
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: DRAKE, Col Francis ([1896]-1993)
Date(s): Created [1944]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in [1896]; Deputy Provost Marshal, 2 Army, UK and Normandy, 1943-1944; died in 1993.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopy of account of the planning and execution of the invasion of Normandy in 1944 from the point of view of the Deputy Provost Marshal, 2 Army, covering the period 1943-1944, with particular reference to the role of the military police.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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 provided forresearch use only. Requests to publish original material should besubmitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide available on-line athttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre'sreading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre in 1994.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: OBE, MC
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997