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

PARKES, Col Thomas


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Parkes

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

Title: PARKES, Col Thomas

Date(s): Created 1916

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Served with O Company, 4 Bn, Special Bde, Royal Engineers, France, 1916.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Diary covering his service in France, notably his involvement in gas attacks on German troops near St Omer, 1916.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

single item

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/htm.top

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased by the Centre in 1987.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Chemical warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Gas warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
St Omer | France | Western Europe | Europe