PHILIPPS, Col Richard Gilmour (b 1897)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Philipps, RG
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	: PHILIPPS, Col Richard Gilmour (b 1897)
Date(s)	: 1944-1945
Level of description	: Collection level
Extent	: 2 files or 0.01m3
Name of creator(s)	: Philipps | Richard Gilmour | b 1897 | Colonel

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1897; resigned commission as Captain, 6 Battalion Devon Regiment, 1930; worked as a solicitor, 1930-1934; re-commissioned as Captain, 6 Battalion Devon Regiment, 1939; Major, 1943; Temporary Lieutenant Colonel, 1944; Q (Movements) Staff, Inter-Allied Transport Commission, 1944-1947; Lieutenant Colonel, Devonshire Regiment (Short Service Officer) 1946; Colonel, 1948; retired, c 1954.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy papers relating to career of Col R G Philipps: Historical Record and Comments on the Mounting of OVERLORD, a personal impression by Southern Command, with accompanying maps, by Col John N Oliver, Head of Planning Staff, 20 Aug 1944; and report `Operation MEDLOC - Planning Staff Report No 3 and Proposed War Establishments', by Lt Col R G Philipps, 22 Feb 1945.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

In files as above.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of a 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, Aug 1983

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