STONE, Brig John Southam Wycherley (1895-1983)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Stone
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	: STONE, Brig John Southam Wycherley (1895-1983)
Date(s)	: Created 1939-1983
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1895; educated at Clifton and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; commissioned into Royal Engineers, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Lt, 1915; Capt, 1917; awarded MC, 1917; Maj, 1929; Staff Capt, War Office, 1932-1934; employed on Air Staff duties, RAF, 1934-1935; General Staff Officer 2, Malta, 1936-1937; Lt Col, 1937; service in Palestine, 1937-1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; awarded OBE, 1940; Col, 1940; General Staff Officer 1, 1940; service in UK, 1940-1942; acting Brig, 1941; Normandy landings and invasion of the Netherlands, 1944; awarded CBE, 1944; served in Greece, Palestine and Egypt, 1946; retired 1948; Hon Brig, 1948; Controller, Technical and General Services, Atomic Research Centre, Aldermaston, Berkshire, 1950-1958; died 1983.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers relating to Stone's career, 1939-1982, including typescript account entitled 'Duck shooting in the upper Jordan valley, 1938-1939', a shoot organised by Maj Gen Bernard Law Montgomery, General Officer Commanding 8 Div, northern Palestine, 1939; typescript extracts from letters by Stone to his wife whilst serving in Palestine, 1938, and extracts from letters to his wife whilst serving as Chief Engineer, Berlin, Germany, 1945-1946; letter from Lt Col Desmond Harrison, Royal Engineers, dated 26 Jun 1940, relating to the campaign in France and the evacuation of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from Dunkirk, 26 May-Jun 1940; typescript 'Chief Engineer's diary', 16 Apr 1942-5 Nov 1945, with an account by an unknown English woman who spent the war in Germany, entitled 'Notes on Berlin in April 1945'; typescript account by Stone of the Normandy invasion and advance of 2 Army to the Netherlands, Jul-Oct 1944; typescript extracts from letters by Stone to his wife, Greece, Feb-Oct 1946, and letters from Mount Zion College, Jerusalem, Palestine, Jul 1946; typescript autobiography, 1895-1950; typescript notes on Atomic Research Centre, Aldermaston, Berkshire, 1950-1958; printed booklet in French and English entitled Keep in mind. La Batisse aux Anglais (1977) by Philippe Bauduin, with related correspondence, 1976; typescript draft obituary, 1983.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and French

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged in sections as above.

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, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre from originals lent by the family in 1983.

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 1998