CHAPMAN, Lt Col Godfrey Percival (1899-1982)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Chapman
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	: CHAPMAN, Lt Col Godfrey Percival (1899-1982)
Date(s)	: Created [1942]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Chapman | Godfrey Percival | 1899-1982 | Lieutenant Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1899; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1919; Lt, 1921; Lt Instructor in Gunnery, Northern Command, 1932; Capt, 1932; Capt Instructor in Gunnery, Northern Command, 1932-1934; Instructor in Gunnery, Malta, 1935-1937; Instructor in Gunnery, School of Anti-Aircraft Defence, 1937-1939; Maj, 1938; served in World War Two with Royal Artillery in North Africa; Wg Cdr, RAF Regt, 1946; Senior Regt Officer in charge of Ground Defence, HQ Air Command, Far East, 1948; Gp Capt, 1950; retired 1952; died in 1982.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Five sketch maps showing British, USA and French troop movements in North Africa, [1942].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English captions

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 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 1984.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 1997