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JOYCE, Lt Col Pierce Charles (1878-1965)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Joyce

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

Title: JOYCE, Lt Col Pierce Charles (1878-1965)

Date(s): Created 1916-1919, 1936, 1963, 1939, 1941, 1963, 1965

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1.5 boxes or 0.015 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1878; educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor; 2nd Lt, 1 Bn, Connaught Rangers, 1900; served in South Africa, 1900-1902; Lt, 1902; attached to Egyptian Army, 1907-1917; Capt, 1909; served in Sudan, 1910; Maj 1915; served at Gallipoli, 1915; General Staff Officer Grade 2, Hedjaz (Hejaz) Mission, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917; Base Commandant, 1917-1918;Special Service Officer, Hedjaz (Hejaz) Operations, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1920; employed under Egyptian Government, 1920-1921; employed under Colonial Office as Military Adviser to Iraqi Army, 1921-1927; joined South Staffordshire Regt, 1922; Lt Col, 1924; retired pay, 1932; died in 1965.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service in Hedjaz (Hejaz), 1916-1919, dated 1916-1919, 1936, 1963, 1939, 1941, 1963, 1965, principally comprising official correspondence relating to operations against the Turks in Hedjaz, 1916-1918, and supplies and stores for bases at Rabegh, Wedj, Yenbo, Akaba and Abu Lissal, 1916-1918, and including letters to and from Thomas Edward Lawrence (laterShaw), Col Cyril Edward Wilson, Gen Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, and Lt Col Alan Geoffrey Charles; correspondence and notes concerning the meeting between Emir Feisal (later Feisal I, King of Iraq) and Dr Chaim Weizmann on 4 Jun 1918, dated [1918] and 1963;typescript text on the history and future of the Arab movement, [1919]; scripts concerning his service with Lawrence in Hedjaz, 1916-1918, written for television broadcasts in 1939 and 1941; official reports on bomb attacks on the Hedjaz railway by X Flight and No14 Sqn personnel, 1917-1918; official reports of reconnaissance flights by X Flight and No 14 Sqn, 1917-1918; diary by Capt H S Hornby describing raids on the Hedjaz railway, May 1917 and May 1918; account by Lt Col Frederick Gerard Peake of Turkish attack on Tafas,Sep 1918, dated 1965.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mostly English, but some Arabic and French

System of arrangement:

Arranged in the following sections: correspondence books; reports on bomb attacks; reconnaissance reports; general correspondence; meeting of Emir Feisal and Dr Weizmann; miscellaneous; intelligence documents; second accession. The papers were formerly known as the Akaba collection.

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

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1965 and 1966.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Arab nationalism | Nationalism | Political doctrines
Armed forces | State security
Desert warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Military intelligence | Warfare | Military engineering
Military operations | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Military science
Primary documents

Personal names
Charles | Alan Geoffrey | fl 1918 | Lieutenant Colonel
Clayton | Sir | Gilbert Falkingham | 1875-1929 | Knight | Brigadier General
Faisal I | 1885-1933 | King of Iraq
Hornby | H S | fl 1917-1918 | Captain
Peake | Frederick Gerard | 1886-1970 | Lieutenant Colonel
Shaw | Thomas Edward | 1888-1935 | Aircraftman | Lieutenant Colonel x Lawrence of Arabia x Lawrence | Thomas Edward
Weizmann | Chaim Azriel | 1874-1952 | Jewish statesman and President of Israel
Wilson | Cyril Edward | 1873-1938 | Colonel

Corporate names
British Army
Turkish Army

Places
Rabegh | Saudi Arabia | Gulf States | Middle East
Yenbo | Saudi Arabia | Gulf States | Middle East
Hejaz x Al-Hijaz