CLEMENTS, Lt Col Charles Marcus Lefevre (1904-1996)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Clements
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	: CLEMENTS, Lt Col Charles Marcus Lefevre (1904-1996)
Date(s)	: 1941-1948
Level of description	: collection level
Extent	: one file or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s)	: Clements | Charles Marcus Lefevre | 1904-1996 | Lieutenant Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1904; commissioned into 4 Queens Hussars as 2 Lieutenant, 1924; Lieutenant, 1926; Captain, 1936; Major, 1941; Commander, B Sqn, 4 Queens Hussars, 3 Royal Tank Regt, Greece, 1941; POW, Warburg, Germany, 1941-1942; POW, Rottenburg, Germany, 1942-1945; Commandant, Bridgend Prisoner of War camp, 1947-1948; retired with rank of Honorary Lieutenant Colonel, 1948; died, 1996.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Memoirs of service of Lt Col Charles Clements, 1941-1948; including typescript copy of his account of service as Commander, B Sqn, 4 Queens Hussars, 3 Royal Tank Regt, Greece, 1941, describing retreat from the Monastir Gap, Greece-Albania border, to Kalamata, Greece, and his subsequent capture by German forces; typescript copy of his account of service as Commandant of Bridgend POW camp for German senior commanders, 1947-1948, describing his relationship with FM Gerd Von Runstedt and the repatriation of prisoners of war. Also two photographs of Clements as a young officer.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

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 Archives and Information Management.

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family, July 1998

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Katharine Higgon.

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:
Sept 2007