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FIELDING-MOULD, Lt Col Reginald Horace (1898-1987)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Fielding-Mould

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

Title: FIELDING-MOULD, Lt Col Reginald Horace (1898-1987)

Date(s): 1917-1945, 1987

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 file, 2 audio cassette tapes

Name of creator(s): Mould | Reginald Horace Fielding- | 1898-1987 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1898; educated at Haileybury College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1917; served in France and Belgium, 1918; Lt, 1919; served in Turkey with Gen Sir Charles Harington Harington's peacekeeping force, 1922-1923; Capt, 1930; served in Hong Kong, 1930; Adjutant, 1930-1933; served in India in 5th Afghan War, 1935; Maj, 1938; Adjutant, 56 Bde (Cinque Ports), Territorial Army, 1936-1940; served in France, 1940; Commanding Officer, 123 Regt, India, 1942-1945; sent to China to advise on the establishment of an artillery school for Gen Chiang Kai-shek's forces; died in 1987.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Material relating to military career of Lt Col Col Reginald Horace Fielding-Mould, 1917-1945, comprising audio cassette recordings of his reminiscences about his service in France and Belgium, 1918, Turkey, 1922-1923, Hong Kong, 1930, India, 1935, 1942-1945, including 5th Afghan War, 1935, and France, 1940, including the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, May-Jun 1940, and his experiences in the Territorial Army, 1936-1940, ND; four photographs relating to Chanak Crisis, 1922; two manuscript obituaries of Fielding-Mould, written by Henry Thoresby, Fielding-Mould's nephew, for [regimental and school magazines], 1987.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file, 2 audio cassette tapes

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.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Army personnel | Armed forces | State security
Battle of France (1940) | World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Mould | Reginald Horace | Fielding- | 1898-1987 | Lieutenant Colonel x Fielding-Mould | Reginald Horace

Corporate names
British Army
Royal Artillery

Places
Afghanistan | Middle East
Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
China | East Asia
Dunkirk | France | Western Europe | Europe
Hong Kong | East Asia
Turkey | Middle East