STUART, Maj Gen Sir Andrew Mitchell (1861-1936)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Stuart
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	: STUART, Maj Gen Sir Andrew Mitchell (1861-1936)
Date(s)	: Created [1885]-1887, [1902]-1903, 1914-1919, 1932-1935
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1861; educated at Dulwich College; entered Army, 1879; served with No 4 Section Telegraph Bn, Royal Engineers, Sudan and Egypt, 1885-1887; Capt, 1889; Maj, 1898; Lt Col, 1905; Col, 1910; Maj Gen, 1916; Assistant Director, Fortifications, Works, War Office, 1910; Director of Works, British Armies in France, 1914-1919; Director of Works and Buildings, Air Ministry, 1919-1924; Col Commandant, Royal Engineers, 1929-1931; died in 1936.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, 1884-1919, dated [1885]-1887, [1902]-1903, 1914-1919, 1932-1935, principally comprising letters to his family describing his service with No 4 Section Telegraph Bn, Royal Engineers, Sudan, 1885-1887; diary, May-Jun [1885], including details of inspections of telegraph line between Halfa and Aswan; note on maintenance and operation of telegraph lines, Sudan and Egypt, 1884-1887, dated [1934-1935]; 'Reminiscences of the Nile Expedition, 1884-1885 and after', typescript text by Col A H Bagnold, 1935; appointment diaries and notebooks kept by Stuart as Director of Works, British Armies in France, 1914-1919; 'Some private recollections of a base wallah, 1914-1919', bound carbon copy of typescript by Col C[harles] L[ouis] Spencer, 1933, describing his service in Lines of Communication bases in Northern France, 1914-1919.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in the following sections: Sudan; India; World War One.

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:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1974.

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:
Mar 1997