MEYNELL, Hugo I

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Meynell
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	: MEYNELL, Hugo I
Date(s)	: 1956
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 oversize box or 0.015 cubic metres
Name of creator(s)	: Meynell | Hugo I | fl 1956 | aide de camp

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Hugo Meynell was aide de camp to Gen Sir Hugh Stockwell, Suez, 1956.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Hugo I Meynell realting to the Suez crisis, 1956, including six detailed aerial photographs of Port Said, Egypt, Nov 1956; map of the Suez Canal, Egypt (scale: 100,000), produced by 2 Corps Headquarters, Oct 1956, showing the canal from Port Said to Suez, with glued-on enlargements (scale 1:25,000) of Port Fouad, El Qantara-el-Gharbiya, the western coast of the Great Bitter Lake, and the town of Suez and page from an Operations Log of 3 Infantry Div (typed on Suez Canal Company headed paper), detailing an attempted petrol bomb attack on a British patrol.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an 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 Archives and Information Management, King's College London.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Collection placed in LHCMA in 2007 via a historian researching the Suez.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Jun 2008