SANDILANDS, Brig Harold Richard (1876-1961)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Sandilands
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	: SANDILANDS, Brig Harold Richard (1876-1961)
Date(s)	: Created 1945, 1947, 1952, 1960
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 envelope
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1876; educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge; 2nd Lt, Northumberland Fusiliers, 1898; served with Mounted Infantry in South Africa, 1899-1901; Lt, 1900; Capt, 1901; served on North West Frontier, India, 1908; served in France and Belgium, 1914-1918, and Italy, 1918; Maj, 1915; served in Iraq, 1919-1920; Lt Col, 1921; Col, 1923; publication of The 23rd Division, 1914-1919 (1925); Senior Officers' School, Woking, 1925-1928; Commander, Peshwar Bde, 1929-1932; retired pay, 1932; died in 1961.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Two letters from FM Sir Cyril John Deverell to Sandilands, relating to Deverell's dismissal as Chief of Imperial General Staff, 1937, written in 1945 and 1947. Associated correspondence, principally comprising letters from Professor James Ramsay Montagu Butler concerning the possible use of the above documents in the official History of the Second World War (HMSO, London, 1949-1988), 1952, 1960.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 envelope

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 1965.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Papers of Gen Sir William Henry Bartholomew (GB99 KCLMA Bartholomew) include two letters from Deverell relating to senior army appointments, 1935-1936 (Ref: 2/4/1-2). Imperial War Museum has notebook kept by Deverell whilst commanding 20 Infantry Bde, 1916. National Army Museum has a collection of postcards and Christmas cards collected by Deverell, 1916-1919, while West Yorkshire Regiment Museum has a copy of account of Burma campaign, 1943-1945 (Ref: 421).

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 1997