HEARD, Lt Col John Arthur Edward (1907-1986)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Heard
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	: HEARD, Lt Col John Arthur Edward (1907-1986)
Date(s)	: Created 1901-1903, 1939-1946
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 5 boxes or 0.05 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1907; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, Dec 1941; service in Indian Army, 1943-1945; Maj, 1944; demobilised [1947]; Chairman and Managing Director, Carrier Engineering Company Limited, 1979; died 1986.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to British produced propaganda for the Indian Army, produced to counter Japanese propaganda aimed to entice Indian Army personnel to desert and fight for the Japanese led Indian National Army, India and Burma, 1943-1945, including correspondence, memoranda, personal papers and propaganda material, 1939-1946. Also, scrapbook album of watercolours, sketches, photographs, menus, invitations and autographs, created 1901-1903 by Beryl White (1877-1954) relating to her life in Sikkim, northern India.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The papers are arranged in sections as outlined above.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

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 available here and on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archivespec/index.html, and in hard copy in the reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1991.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The papers of Christopher Lawrence Sainty include a summary by Heard relating to the work of Carrier Engineering Company Limited in designing and installing filters for gas protection to British tanks during World War Two,1939-1945 (Ref: Sainty).

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Jun 1997