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

SHEARMAN, Brig Charles Edward Gowran (1889-1968)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Shearman

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

Title: SHEARMAN, Brig Charles Edward Gowran (1889-1968)

Date(s): Created [1914-1942]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1889; educated at Westminster School, London; 2nd Lt, Bedfordshire Regt, 1909; Lt, 1911; Capt, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regt, 1914; served in France and Belgium, 1914-1918; General Staff Officer Grade 3, France, 1917; Bde Maj, France, 1917-1918; Staff Capt, Irish Command, 1920-1921; Bde Maj, Irish Command, 1921-1922; General Staff Officer Grade 3, Eastern Command, 1922-1924; attended Staff College, Camberley, 1926; General Staff Officer Grade 3, later Grade 2, RAF Co-operation, Aldershot, 1928-1930; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Western Command, 1930-1932; commanded 1 Bn, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regt, 1933-1937; Assistant Quartermaster General, Northern Command, 1937-1939; served in World War Two; served in Kenya, 1940-1942; retired pay, 1945; died in 1968.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photograph albums relating to his military career, [1914-1942], notably his service in Northern Ireland, 1920, Hong Kong and Shanghai, 1930, North Africa and India, [1930-1940], and Kenya, 1940-1942, with associated papers, [1914-1942], notably a diary of C and D Companies, 1 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regt, Belfast, 28 Jul-30 Jul 1920.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

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 provided 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 available 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 1996

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CBE, DSO, MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Hong Kong | East Asia
India | South Asia
Kenya | East Africa
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Northern Ireland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Shanghai | Shanghai Shi | China | East Asia
Asia
North Africa