CARMICHAEL, Lt Col Humphrey Rawstorne (1914-1995)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Carmichael
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	: CARMICHAEL, Lt Col Humphrey Rawstorne (1914-1995)
Date(s)	: Created 1995
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Carmichael | Humphrey Rawstone | 1914-1995 | Lieutenant Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1914; unattached 2nd Lt, 1936; appointed to 17 Dogra Regt, Indian Army, 1937; served in Waziristan, 1937; Lt, 1938; seconded to RAF, 1941-1944; captured by the Japanese Army in Burma, 26 Apr 1943, but escaped 10 days later; Capt, 1944; Maj, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1948; Lt Col, 1951; Deputy Commander, 5 Base Ordnance Depot, Middle East Land Forces, 1954-1955; Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, HQ, Eastern Command, 1957; retired, 1969; died in 1995.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of 'The capture and escape of Pilot Officer H R Carmichael, MC, Arakan, Burma, 1943', and an obituary from [Dogra Regiment] magazine, 1995.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file

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 entry 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 1995.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 1997