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FITZGERALD-LOMBARD, Col James Cotter Roger (1905-1981)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Fitzgerald-Lombard

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

Title: FITZGERALD-LOMBARD, Col James Cotter Roger (1905-1981)

Date(s): Created [1920-1935], 1949

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1905; educated at Cheltenham College, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and Clare College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1936; served in India, 1936-1937; Staff Capt, China, 1937-1939; Staff Capt, Hong Kong, 1939; served in France, 1939-1940, Iceland, 1940-1941, and France and Belgium, 1944; Col, HQ 21 Army Group, Palestine, 1946-1947; served inEast Africa, 1947-1949; Lt Col, 1949; Commander, Royal Engineers, Sussex and Surrey, 1950-1951; honorary Col and retired, 1951; died in 1981.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of article entitled 'Installation of an automatic electric lighting set in an army barracks', Fort Dunree, 1933, with covering letter from Lt Col P H Kealy, Secretary of the Institution of Royal Engineers, 1934; part of text on the training of officers of the Royal Engineers in peacetime, written in [1920-1935]. 'The 'Leader' project - engineer resources', an article on a project (subsequently abandoned) for the establishment of an Ordnance and Engineer depot at Mackinnon Road, near Mombasa, Kenya, in 1947-1949, written in Oct 1949 and reprinted from The Royal Engineers Journal.

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 entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies were made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1981, while journalreprint was presented to the Centre by the family later in the same year.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial forces | Armed forces | State security
Electrical engineering
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Kealy | P H | fl 1934 | Lieutenant Colonel

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Mombasa | Kenya | East Africa