MELVILLE, Col Christian Landale (1913-1984)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Melville
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	: MELVILLE, Col Christian Landale (1913-1984)
Date(s)	: Created [1930]-1945
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file, 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1913; 2nd Lt, Black Watch, 1933; Lt, 1936; Maj, 1946; retired in 1948; died in 1984.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his military career, [1930]-1945, principally comprising official printed 21 Army Group report on the clearing of Scheldt Estuary, Belgium, Oct-Nov 1944, written in [1944]; typescript copy of article on the Tunisian campaign, 1942-1943, from The Times, 22 May 1943; two silk maps of Western Europe, [1939-1945].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file, 1 volume

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:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.

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:
Jun 1997