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KILNER BROWN, Col Hon Sir Ralph 1909-2003

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Kilner Brown

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

Title: KILNER BROWN, Col Hon Sir Ralph 1909-2003

Date(s): 1945, 1994, 2003

Level of description: collection level

Extent: one file or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Kilner Brown | Hon Sir | Ralph | 1909-2003 | Colonel | Knight

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1909; educated Kingswood School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; joined Territorial Army, 1938; commissioned, 2 Lieutenant, March 1939; called up, July 1939; Deputy Adjutant and Quarter Master General, North West Europe Plans; Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters 53 Welsh Division, 1943; Assistant Quarter Master General (Planning), Chief Of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander; Lieutenant Colonel Quartering (Operations) and Brigadier Quartering Staff Headquarters, 21 Army Group, 1944; compiled Army textbook on Administration in the Field of War, 1945; retired with rank of Honorary Colonel, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, 1952; died, 2003.

Publications: Top brass and no brass. The inside story of the alliance of Britain and America (Lewes, 1991).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers relating to the life and military service of Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, 1944-1945, 1994, 2003, including: front page and flyleaf of A collection of Field Marshal Montgomery's personal messages to 21 Army Group, Normandy to the Baltic, 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945 (21 Army Group, 1945) featuring signatures of FM Bernard Law Montgomery and other staff; HQ 21 Army Group Q Cavalcade, caricatures of 21 Army Group HQ personnel by `Diz', including Maj Gen Miles Graham, Maj Gen `Gerry' Feilden, Brig Lymer, Col Charles Hardie, Col W H Jackson, Lt Col `Koko' Weldon, Lt Col McLintock, Major Brockelbande, Maj Parry, Maj Paul Wright, Sheena Strachan, Peggy Metcalfe, Brenda Chapher, SSM Moyston and Col Ralph Kilner Brown, 1944; article by Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, `D-DAY: a great day for Britain' published in Vintage Times, 1994; and obituaries of Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, 2003.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One file as above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

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 Archives and Information Management.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family, April 2004

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

The originals are retained by the family.

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: OBE (Mil), TD, DL

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.