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

TILNEY, Sir John (Dudley Robert Tarleton) (1907-1994)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Tilney

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

Title: TILNEY, Sir John (Dudley Robert Tarleton) (1907-1994)

Date(s): Created 1943-1945

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1907; educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; served during World War Two with 59 (4 West Lancashire) Medium Regt and 11 (Essex) Medium Regt, Royal Artillery; commanded 85 (Essex ) Medium Battery, 1943-1945; commanded 47/49 359 (4 West Lancashire) Medium Regt, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army; MP for Wavertree, Liverpool, 1950-1974; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Secretary of State for War, 1951-1955, and Postmaster-General, 1957-1959; Chairman, Inter-Parliamentary Union, British Group, 1959-1962; Chairman, Conservative Commonwealth Council West Africa Committee, 1954-1962; Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of Transport, 1959-1962; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1962-1964, and for the Colonies, 1963-1964; Chairman, Merseyside Conservative MPs, 1964-1974; Treasurer, UK Branch, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, 1968-1970; died in 1994.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'The diary of 85 (Essex) Medium Battery, Royal Artillery, 1943-1945', notably covering their service in North West Europe, 1944-1945, written by Tilney and other members of the officers' mess, printed in 1947.

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 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 Centre's reading room

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by Tilney in 1982.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Imperial War Museum, Liverpool Record Office

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: Kt, TD

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Artillery | Weapons | Military equipment | Equipment
Diaries | Nonfiction | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Primary documents

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