LUMLEY, Lt Col Richard Francis (1909-1994)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Lumley
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	: LUMLEY, Lt Col Richard Francis (1909-1994)
Date(s)	: Created 1981
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1909; gazetted to Supplementary Reserve commission, Queen's Royal Regt, 1928; commissioned into North Staffordshire Regt, 1930; served briefly in Gibraltar and India before resigning in [1932]; worked for the Abbey Road Building Society, [1932-1934]; salesman, Coca Cola Company, 1936-1937, and H P Bulmer and Company Limited, 1937-1940; commissioned intoSouth Staffordshire Regt, 1940; served in UK, 1940-1943, and India, 1943-1945; worked for various brewers, 1945-1960, notably Bulmers and Taylor Walker and Company; died in 1984.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopy of 'From carriage to Concorde', typescript memoir covering his life and career, 1917-1981, notably his military service in Gibraltar and India, 1930-[1932], in the UK, 1940-1943, and in India, 1943-1945, including an account of the explosion of the US ammunition ship FORT STIKINE, Bombay, Apr 1944, his work for the Abbey Road Building Society, [1932-1934], asa salesman, 1936-1940, and in the brewing industry, 1945-1960, written in 1981.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

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 published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copy made by the Centre in 1995 from original 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:
Sep 1996