SMITH, Capt Ralph C

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Smith
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	: SMITH, Capt Ralph C
Date(s)	: Created 1915-1917
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 files
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Served with Northumbrian (County of Durham) (Howitzer) Bde, France and Belgium, 1915-1917.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of typescript diary of his service on the Western Front, 1915-1917, notably in the second Battle of Ypres, Apr 1915, the Battle of the Somme, Aug-Sep 1916, and the Battle of Arras, Apr 1917.

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 provided 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 available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre in 1981 from originals loaned by the family.

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Jul 1997