Misc: Maps and charts relating to Greece, Burma, and the RAF in Europe and the Far East during World War Two

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 37
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: Misc: Maps and charts relating to Greece, Burma, and the RAF in Europe and the Far East during World War Two
Date(s)	: 1942-1971
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 4 items
Name of creator(s)	: Permanent Committee on Geographical Names; Directorate of Military Survey and Geographical Section General Staff; Institute for Army Education; Ministry of Defence

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Content

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Edition of A Gazetteer of Greece published by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for the Admiralty and War Office (House of the Royal Geographical Society, London, 1942). Also, official 1945 edition of RAF Map Catalogue containing lists of maps of Europe, the Middle East and the Far East held by the RAF and published by Directorate of Military Survey, Middle East; Directorate of Survey, Geographical Section General Staff, India; the Australian Survey Corps; the Aeronautical Chart Service; US Army Air Forces; and the Army Map Service, US Army. Book of maps published by the Institute for Army Education relating to the British campaign in Burma, 1942-1945, and including maps of Northern Arakan, the Assam Front, the Kohima Sector, the Imphal Sector, the Irrawaddy, and campaigns in Burma and Eastern India, 1942-1945. Ministry of Defence map and air chart sales catalogue containing details of all maps and aeronautical chart series released for sale to the public by the Ministry of Defence, including world surface maps, aeronautical topographical and planning charts, and special navigational charts, 1968- 1971.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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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 Ministry of Defence, Whitehall Library, 3-5 Great Scotland Yard, London, SW1A 2HW and the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Archival Information

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Presented to the Centre in 1994 by King's College Library

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Date of compilation: Nov 1999