GB 0099 KCLMA Barnardiston - BARNARDISTON, Maj Gen Nathaniel Walter (1858-1919)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Barnardiston Created 1914-1919 Collection (fonds) 0.5 box or 0.05 cubic metres Barnardiston , Nathaniel Walter , 1858-1919 , Major General

Born in 1858; joined 77 (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Regt of Foot, 1878; Adjutant 2 Bn Middlesex Regt, 1882-1886; Capt, 1885; graduated Staff College, 1888; Aide de Camp to Governor of Bermuda, 1889-1892; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Eastern District, 1894-1897; Maj, 1896; Staff Captain Intelligence Div, War Office, 1898-1899; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Intelligence Div, War Office, 1899-1901; served with 2 Bn Middlesex Regt in the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1901-1902; temporary Military Attache to Brussels and The Hague, 1902-1904; Lt Col, 1904; Military Attache to Brussels, The Hague, and the Scandinavian Courts, 1904-1906; Military Attache to Brussels and The Hague, 1906; Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1906-1910; Brevet Col, 1907; Assistant Director of Military Training and General Staff Officer Grade 1, 1910-1914; Col, 1910; served World War One, 1914-1918; commanded British troops at the capture of Tsingtao, North China, 1914; Maj Gen, 1914; Commander 39 Div, 1915-1916; Chief of British Military Mission to Portugal, 1916-1919; died 1919.Publications:Handbook of the Belgian Army,(War Office Intelligence Department, Stationary Office, London, 1899); Handbook of the French Army, (War Office Intelligence Department, Stationary Office, London, 1901).

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1966.

Papers relating to the Japanese and British capture of the German possession of Tsingtao, North China, during World War One, and a subsequent visit to Japan, 1914; papers created during command of 39 Div, 1915-1916; papers relating to post as Chief of British Military Mission to Portugal, including personal diaries, and correspondence relating to discussions held by Barnardiston on Belgian neutrality in 1906, 1916-1919.

Arranged in sections as above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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.
Mainly English, with some Japanese and Portuguese.

Detailed catalogue available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Further papers (1859-1919) held at the Bury St Edmunds branch of the West Suffolk Record Office.

Decorations: CB, MVO
Feb 1998 Armed forces Barnardiston , Nathaniel Walter , 1858-1919 , Major General Belgium British Army China Diaries Diplomacy Documents East Asia Europe Foreign relations Information sources International conflicts International relations Japanese Army Literary forms and genres Literature Military missions Military organizations Neutrality Nonfiction Organizations Portugal Primary documents Prose State security Tsingtao War Western Europe World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) Wars (events)

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1966.

Papers relating to the Japanese and British capture of the German possession of Tsingtao, North China, during World War One, and a subsequent visit to Japan, 1914; papers created during command of 39 Div, 1915-1916; papers relating to post as Chief of British Military Mission to Portugal, including personal diaries, and correspondence relating to discussions held by Barnardiston on Belgian neutrality in 1906, 1916-1919.

Arranged in sections as above.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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.

• inglés

• latín

Mainly English, with some Japanese and Portuguese.

Further papers (1859-1919) held at the Bury St Edmunds branch of the West Suffolk Record Office.

Detailed catalogue available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Decorations: CB, MVO

Decorations: CB, MVO

• inglés