POORE, Brig Gen Robert Montagu (1886-1938)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Poore
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	: POORE, Brig Gen Robert Montagu (1886-1938)
Date(s)	: Created 1887-1931, 1977, 1985, 1988
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 boxes or 0.03 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: Poore | Robert Montagu | 1886-1938 | Brigadier General

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1866; Lt, 3 Bn, Wiltshire Regiment (Militia), 1883; joined 1 Bn, 1886; transferred to 7 Hussars, 1886; served in India, 1886-1895; ADC to Governor of Bombay, 1892-1895; served in South Africa, 1895-1906; Staff Captain, Natal 1896; Capt, 1898; Provost Marshal, South African Field Force, 1899-1902; Maj, 1901; Lt Col, 1911; commanded 7 Hussars, 1911-1915; served in India, 1911-1919; Col, 1914; commanded Jhansi Bde, 1915-1919; retired pay, 1921; noted amateur cricketer; died in 1938.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, [1891]-1931, dated [1891]-1931, 1977, 1985, 1988, principally comprising diaries, 1899-1900, and letters to his family, 1900-1902, describing his service as Provost Marshal with the South African Field Force; memorandum to Col Duff, Assistant Adjutant General, South African Field Force, concerning the functions of the Provost Marshal, 1900; photographs, [1891-1931], mainly of Poore and his family; 'The new cavalry sword and mounted swordsmanship', copy of an article by Poore from The Cavalry Journal, Apr 1911; copies of published articles relating to his cricketing career, 1899, [1920], 1985, 1988. Papers relating to his wife Lady Flora Poore, 1899-1900, 1916, comprising her diaries, 1899-1900; lists of work completed and statements of accounts of the Jhansi Cantonments Comforts to Troops Fund, 1915-1916.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in the following sections: diaries; correspondence; memoranda; photographs; cricketing articles; Lady Flora Poore; miscellaneous.

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:

Detailed catalogue available 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 1988. A further deposit was made in 1989 by Mr Jeremy S J Lonsdale.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Centre also holds the papers of his father, Maj Robert Poore, and his brothers, Philip Poore and Lt Col Roger Alvin Poore. The National Army Museum holds papers relating to both Brig Gen Robert Montagu Poore, 1896, 1911, [1920], [1935] (Ref: 7404-44-1) and Maj Robert Poore, 1854-1858 (Ref: 7509-60, 61).

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 1997