IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Crum
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: CRUM, Brig John Alexander Stewart (1903-1980)
Date(s): 1946
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 1 file and 1 volume or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s): Crum | John Alexander Stewart | 1903-1980 | Brigadier
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1903; educated at The Oratory and the Royal Military Academy; commissioned into Royal Artillery as 2 Lieutenant, 1923; Lieutenant, 1925; Indian Signal Corps, 1926-1930; Adjutant, 1935-1938; Captain, 1936; Brigade Major, Anti Aircraft Corps, Territorial Army, 1938-1940; Major, 1940; Lieutenant Colonel, 1941; secretary of the Venezia Giulia Boundary Commission, 1946; secretary of the Four Power Commission, Italian Colonies, 1947; Colonel, 1947; chief secretary to Control Commission, Germany, 1948; military attaché, Greece, 1949-1951; Brigade Commander, 1951-1955; Queen's Messenger, 1955-1960; died 1980.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Brig John Crum, 1946, relating to the history of 8 Anti Aircraft Brigade, comprising typescript document by Capt Laurence Edgar Cates, 'History of 8 A A Brigade', detailing their work, June 1941-August 1945, including service in Iraq, 1941-1943, and Italy, 1943-1945; also copy of The History of the 17th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1938-1945 by Lt Col Henry Swanson Eeles, (Courier, Tunbridge Wells, 1946).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One file and one volume as above.
Conditions governing access:
In order to view archive material you will need to sign a reader undertaking form and provide 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.
Finding aids:
No further finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family, Nov 2005.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Decorations: OBE
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2007