BOWRING, Maj Gen John Humphrey Stephen (1913-1998)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Bowring
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	: BOWRING, Maj Gen John Humphrey Stephen (1913-1998)
Date(s)	: Created 1963, 1968
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: Bowring | John Humphrey Stephen | 1913 - 1998 | Major General

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1913; educated at Downside, Royal Military Academy Woolwich and Trinity College, Cambridge; commissioned into the army in 1933; served in Palestine, 1936; India, 1937-40; Middle East, 1940-42; and India and Burma, 1942-46; British Military Mission to Greece, 1947-1950; UK, 1951-1955; Commander, Royal Engineers, 17 Gurkha Division, Malaya, 1955-1958; Col, General Staff, War Office, 1958-1961; Brig and Chief Engineer, Far East Land Forces, 1961-1964; Brigadier General Staff, Ministry of Defence, 1964-1965; Engineer-in-Chief, 1965-1968; Col, Gurkha Engineers, 1966-1971; Col Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1968-1973; died 1998.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopy of a report on role of engineers of Far East Land Forces in Borneo, 1963, following the Brunei rebellion, 1962; and photocopy of a directive relating to recruitment and training within the Engineering Corps, 1968.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

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.

Finding aids:

This collection description.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by Bowring in 1991.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Jun 1996