DONLEA, Lt Col Basil James Fitzgerald (1910-1986)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Donlea B J F
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	: DONLEA, Lt Col Basil James Fitzgerald (1910-1986)
Date(s)	: Created 1940, [1944], [1960-1970], 1986
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in India in 1910; educated at Mayfield College, Sussex, 1921-1927; enlisted in Life Guards, 1928; commissioned into 2 Royal Ulster Rifles, 1933; served with 1 Royal Ulster Rifles in Alexandria, 1935, Hong Kong, 1935-1937, and Shanghai, 1937; Lt 1936; served in India, 1937-1939; Capt, 1939; served with 2 East Surrey Regt, 1940, 2 Royal Ulster Rifles, 1943-1944, and 1 King's (Liverpool) Regt, 1946; Maj, 1946; Company Commander, 1 Royal Irish Fusiliers, British Army of the Rhine, 1950; served with King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1952-1954; Lt Col, 1953; died in 1986.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers relating to his life and career, 1921-1986, dated 1940, [1944], [1960-1970], 1986, notably including notes taken on a mountain warfare course, Abbottabad, India, Apr 1940; his Royal Ulster Rifles Historical Record, giving personal details and a career summary, 1921-1959, dated [1960-1970]; copy photographs of Donlea, 1935, and 1 Bn, Royal Ulster Rifles with Gen Sir Law Bernard Montgomery, [1944].

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 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:

Copies made by the Centre in 1989 from originals loaned by the family.

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