BROOKE, Lt Col Kenneth Read (1907-1998)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Brooke K R
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	: BROOKE, Lt Col Kenneth Read (1907-1998)
Date(s)	: Created 1988
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 item
Name of creator(s)	: Brooke | Kenneth Read | 1907-1998 | Lieutenant Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1907; commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps, 1927; Lt, 1930; served with The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry), India; service on North West Frontier, India, 1936-1937; Capt, 1937; service with 11 Light Tank Company, Royal Tank Corps, Peshawar, Punjab, and Razmak, Waziristan, India, 1938-1939; served in India and Italy, World War Two, 1939-1945; Maj, 1944; Instructor, Indian Armoured Corps Fighting Vehicles School, India, 1946-1947; retired [1949]; Justice of the Peace; died 1998. Publications: The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry), 1922-1947 (Scinde Horse Association, London, 1957).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

One promotional videotape relating to The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry), Indian Army, with items entitled 'The Scinde Horse sesquintennial', dated 16 Oct 1988, and 'Defenders of the dawn', dated 17 Nov 1988.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 VHS videotape

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:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, 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 1999.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 1999