Misc: World War Two Home Guard Training Papers and Maps of the Western Front, 1914-1918

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA MISC: 53 and 54
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	: Misc: World War Two Home Guard Training Papers and Maps of the Western Front, 1914-1918
Date(s)	: 1916-1943
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Ryland | John Patrick | d 1992

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Home Guard training notes, booklets and maps, 1916-1943; comprising 2 folders of Home Guard papers consisting of typescript and manuscript exercise orders, training camp instructions, night training guidance, guidance notes on the use of weapons and training proficiency badge examination mark sheets, all relating to 61 Surrey (Norwood) Bn, 1941-1943; printed War Office Home Guard regulations, training and information booklets with a guide to German infantry, 1941-1943; maps of the Western Front, Belgium and France, 1916-1918, British and German, some showing trenches, focussing on the Hazebrouck and Senlis regions, and of the Western Front and of Europe in general published by the Daily Telegraph, Ordnance Survey and others; photographic panorama showing a stretch of front with identifying background features such as roads, settlements and woodland in the Neuve Chapelle area, [1916].

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and German

System of arrangement:

Arranged as above in the Scope and Content section.

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:

Summary Guide entry 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:

Papers bequethed to King's College London in 1992.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Maps of the Western Front in the Centre are found within the Benson, Blagrove, Brooke-Popham, Collins, Dimoline, Hodges, Liddell Hart and other collections. Home Guard papers include contents of the Adam, Maze, Sanders collections.

Copies of many Home Guard circulars and information booklets are located in the British Library. Other Home Guard and Western Front material can be found in the Imperial War Museum, Public Record Office, and elsewhere.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
June 2003