BATTEN, Lt Col John Forbes (1893-1979)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Batten
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	: BATTEN, Lt Col John Forbes (1893-1979)
Date(s)	: Created 1933-1934
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Batten | John Forbes | 1893-1979 | Lieutenant Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1893; 2nd Lt, 1912; served in France and Belgium, 1914-1915, 1917; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1916; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, India, 1919-1920; Captain Instructor in Gunnery (Artillery), School of Artillery, 1922-1926; Staff Officer, Royal Artillery, Northern Command, 1926-1928; Staff Captain, School of Artillery, 1928; commanded 11 Field Battery, Royal Artillery, India, 1933-1934; died 1979.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Photographs relating to his service in India, 1933-1934, notably including two photographs of 11 Field Battery testing wireless equipment, 1934.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file.

Conditions governing access:

Open, Subject to signature of reader's undertaking from.

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.

Finding aids:

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

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Jun 1997