GB 0099 KCLMA Cadogan C M - CADOGAN, Lt Christopher Michael (1917-1941)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Cadogan C M

Title

CADOGAN, Lt Christopher Michael (1917-1941)

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  • 1940 (Creation)

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1 box (0.01 cubic metres)

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Biographical history

Born 1917, member of the 'Hopkinson Mission', (Military part of No.3 Military and Air Mission, British Expeditionary Force, May-Jun 1940); killed in North Africa, 1941.

Archival history

GB 0099 KCLMA Cadogan C M 1940 Collection (Fonds) 1 box (0.01 cubic metres) Cadogan , Christopher Michael , 1917-1941 , Colonel

Born 1917, member of the 'Hopkinson Mission', (Military part of No.3 Military and Air Mission, British Expeditionary Force, May-Jun 1940); killed in North Africa, 1941.

Presented to the Centre by Mrs G F N Reddaway, 2000. Her late husband, Norman Reddaway was also a member of the 'Hopkinson Mission'.

Papers and photographs of Lt Christopher Michael Cadogan from his service on the 'Hopkinson Mission', May-Jun 1940, principally comprising an album of photographs taken by John Gabriel of the Hopkinson Mission in Belgium and the Dunkirk evacuation, featuring photos from the Hopkinson Mission of refugees, military personnel and events taken at Valenciennes, Warve, Aalst, St Trond, Neelanden, Waterloo, near Terneuzen, Gennape, Enghien, Beuvry, Douai, near Orchies, Armentieres, Dunkirk, Ypres, Ostend and photographs from the Dunkirk evacuation including of SS AKUBIR and SS MARQUIS; Cadogan's typescript "War Diary" 10-29 May 1940 as composed Oct 1940 covering the period of the Hopkinson Mission's operations until evacuation from Ostend, with handwritten comments and annotations by 'JPG' [probably John Gabriel]; typescript edition of Cadogan's pre-war letters and his war diary of 1940, edited by his widow, Stella Zilliacus.

As outlined in the scope and content.

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.
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Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project; revised by Katharine Higgon. 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. Aug 2001; 2008 Armed forces Belgium British Army British Expeditionary Force Cadogan , Christopher Michael , 1917-1941 , lieutenant Dunkirk Europe France Gabriel , John , fl 1940 , photographer International conflicts International relations Military engineering Military operations Military organizations Operation Dynamo (1940) Organizations Photographs State security Visual materials War Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events)

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Presented to the Centre by Mrs G F N Reddaway, 2000. Her late husband, Norman Reddaway was also a member of the 'Hopkinson Mission'.

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Papers and photographs of Lt Christopher Michael Cadogan from his service on the 'Hopkinson Mission', May-Jun 1940, principally comprising an album of photographs taken by John Gabriel of the Hopkinson Mission in Belgium and the Dunkirk evacuation, featuring photos from the Hopkinson Mission of refugees, military personnel and events taken at Valenciennes, Warve, Aalst, St Trond, Neelanden, Waterloo, near Terneuzen, Gennape, Enghien, Beuvry, Douai, near Orchies, Armentieres, Dunkirk, Ypres, Ostend and photographs from the Dunkirk evacuation including of SS AKUBIR and SS MARQUIS; Cadogan's typescript "War Diary" 10-29 May 1940 as composed Oct 1940 covering the period of the Hopkinson Mission's operations until evacuation from Ostend, with handwritten comments and annotations by 'JPG' [probably John Gabriel]; typescript edition of Cadogan's pre-war letters and his war diary of 1940, edited by his widow, Stella Zilliacus.

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As outlined in the scope and content.

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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 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.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

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

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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.

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  • English

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