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

RUSBRIDGE, Col Robert Alfred (1889-1981)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Rusbridge

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

Title: RUSBRIDGE, Col Robert Alfred (1889-1981)

Date(s): Created [1931-1936], 1940, 1942-1943, ND

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 0.75 box or 0.0075 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1889; Army Schoolmaster, 1918-1921; 2nd Lt, Army Educational Corps, 1921; Lt, 1923; Capt, 1931; Instructor, Army School of Education, 1931-1936; Maj, 1943; Education Officer, Northern Command, 1947-[1949]; Col, 1949; died in 1981.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, [1931-1936], 1940, 1942-1943, principally comprising 'The army instructor or the instructor and the soldier' and 'The art of lecturing', typescript texts by [Rusbridge], [1931-1936]; detailed lecture notes, [1931-1936], notably on teaching methods and psychology, [1931-1936]; typescript summaries of lectures on psychology by Capt Frederick Wren, delivered at the Army School of Education, Shorncliffe, [1931-1936]; 'Education in the war-time army', printed leaflet issued by the War Office, 1940; bound volume of Current Affairs, journal issued by Army Bureau of Current Affairs, vol 2 nos 27-52, Sep 26 1942-Sep 25 1943. 'Reproductions of water colour drawings of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst', privately printed pamphlet, ND.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

0.75 box

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CBE

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Military education | Higher science education
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Wren | Frederick | fl 1931-1936 | Captain

Corporate names
British Army

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Sandhurst | Berkshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Shorncliffe | Kent | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe