GB 0099 KCLMA Barnett B G - BARNETT, Maj Benjamin George (1912-1998)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Barnett B G

Title

BARNETT, Maj Benjamin George (1912-1998)

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  • Created 1944-1945 (Creation)

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1 file

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Biographical history

Born in 1912; 2nd Lt, 100 Army Field Bde, Territorial Army, 1936; Lt, 1939; Capt, 1939; Officer Commanding, 249 Battery, 63 Anti-Tank Regt, Oxfordshire Yeomanry, 1944-1946; Maj, 1946; died 1998

Archival history

GB 0099 KCLMA Barnett B G Created 1944-1945 Collection (fonds) 1 file Barnett , Benjamin George , 1912-1998 , Major

Born in 1912; 2nd Lt, 100 Army Field Bde, Territorial Army, 1936; Lt, 1939; Capt, 1939; Officer Commanding, 249 Battery, 63 Anti-Tank Regt, Oxfordshire Yeomanry, 1944-1946; Maj, 1946; died 1998

Presented to the centre by Barnett in 1986.

Papers relating to his military service, 1944-1945, principally comprising war diary including maps and photographs, Sep 1944-Jul 1945; copy of report on the liberation of Belsen written for the Director of Military Government by Lt Col R I G Taylor, Officer Commanding, 63 Anti Tank Regt, [1945]; orders relating to the occupation and administration of Belsen, from Brig General Staff of 8 Corps, British Liberation Army, April 1945; report on Belsen by Capt Barker, Royal Army Medical Corps, 63 Anti Tank Regt, Jun 1945; letter to British officers from a group of Czech women prisoners describing their treatment in Belsen, 1945; Barnett's notes for a talk on Belsen, ND; photographs showing inmates and conditions in Belsen, 1945; newspaper cuttings relating to Victory in Europe Day, the liberation of Belsen and the Belsen trial, May-Oct 1945; 'Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, June 1944-May 1945', issued by HMSO, 1946.

1 file.

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

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 Archive Services.
English

Summary Guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/archives, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Decorations: MBE
Feb 1997 Barker , fl 1945 , Captain Barnett , Benjamin George , 1912-1998 , Major Belsen British Army Concentration camps Diaries Documents Europe Germany Humanitarian law Information sources International conflicts Literary forms and genres Literature Nonfiction Photographs Primary documents Prose Taylor , Richard Ian Griffith , fl 1945 , Lieutenant Colonel Visual materials War War crimes War diaries War prisoners War victims Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events)

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Presented to the centre by Barnett in 1986.

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Papers relating to his military service, 1944-1945, principally comprising war diary including maps and photographs, Sep 1944-Jul 1945; copy of report on the liberation of Belsen written for the Director of Military Government by Lt Col R I G Taylor, Officer Commanding, 63 Anti Tank Regt, [1945]; orders relating to the occupation and administration of Belsen, from Brig General Staff of 8 Corps, British Liberation Army, April 1945; report on Belsen by Capt Barker, Royal Army Medical Corps, 63 Anti Tank Regt, Jun 1945; letter to British officers from a group of Czech women prisoners describing their treatment in Belsen, 1945; Barnett's notes for a talk on Belsen, ND; photographs showing inmates and conditions in Belsen, 1945; newspaper cuttings relating to Victory in Europe Day, the liberation of Belsen and the Belsen trial, May-Oct 1945; 'Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, June 1944-May 1945', issued by HMSO, 1946.

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1 file.

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Open, subject to signature of reader's 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 Archive Services.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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Summary Guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/archives, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

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Decorations: MBE

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Decorations: MBE

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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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  • English

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