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GLOVER, Wg Cdr Christopher Charge ([1920]-1998)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Glover

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

Title: GLOVER, Wg Cdr Christopher Charge ([1920]-1998)

Date(s): Created 1940-1946

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born [1920]; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; joined RAF, 1940; Pilot Officer, Cairo, Egypt, 1941; served in India, Dec 1941; service in Java, Dutch East Indies, 1942, and evacuated to India following Japanese invasion, Feb 1942; served in Burma, 1942; service with Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia, 1944-1945; demobilised as Wg Cdr, 1947; died 1998.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, diaries and photographs relating to Glover's RAF service, 1940-1946, including typescript 'Notes on organisation of enemy aircraft section' by Flight Lt P B Horne, 5 Jul 1941; one manuscript narrative diary, 16 Nov 1941-9 Jan 1942, with RAF Officer's service and release book, 1946; two manuscript narrative diaries, 1943 and 1944, with copy of manuscript pocket diary, 1945; two typescript reports by Glover, as member of Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia, relating to landing by US 41 Div on Wake Island (north of New Guinea, Dutch East Indies), 16-17 May 1944, and Biak Island (north west of New Guinea, DutchEast Indies), 27 May 1944; typescript notes on the formation and operations of Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia, 1944-1945; manuscript list of US Navy, USAAF and RAF personnel, Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia, [1945].Photograph album containing 29 captioned photographs, Feb-May 1942, containing Allied officers on board ship KOTA GEDE, following the evacuation of Java, Dutch East Indies, 26 Feb 1942; Calcutta, India, Apr 1942; Mandalay, Burma, Apr 1942; RAF Hawker Hurricane fighters landing at Chittagong, India, May 1942. Sixty seven loose photographs, some captioned, Far East, 1944-1946,including British and US personnel of Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit, South East Asia [1944-1945]; USAAF C47 Douglas Dakota transport aircraft in flight [1945]; aerial photograph of Allied POW camp, Burma, Aug 1945; official Japanese surrender ceremony, Saigon, French Indo China, 1946; portrait photograph of Glover as a Wg Cdr, RAF [1946].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

4 files

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 available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and in hard copy in the reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1999.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Military aircraft | Aircraft | Vehicles | Transport
Military intelligence | Warfare | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
War prisoners | War victims | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Military science
Peace
Primary documents

Personal names
Horne | P B | fl 1941 | Flight Lieutenant

Corporate names
Kota Gede
RAF | Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force
US Army
US Army Air Force
US Navy

Places
Biak | Schouten, Kepulauan | Irian Jaya | Indonesia | South East Asia
Chittagong | India | South Asia
Indo-China | South East Asia
Java | Indonesia | South East Asia
Mandalay | Myanmar | South East Asia
Thành Pho Ho Chí Minh | Viet Nam | South East Asia
Wake Island | Oceania
Dutch East Indies x Indonesia
Asia and the Pacific