Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1984 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
1 file
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Born in 1905; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1925; Lt, 1927; Assistant Instructor, Small Arms School, Netheravon, 1931-1934; served in India, 1935-1938; Capt, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 1936; attended Staff College, Camberley, 1939; served in North West Europe, 1939-1940, and 1944-1946; various staff appointments, 1940-1942, including General Staff Officer Grade 2, Canadian Corps; Maj, 1942; commanded 1 Bn, Hereford Regt, 1942-1944, 159 Infantry Bde, 1944-1946, and 43 Div, 1946; commanded Northumbrian District, 1946; commanded 2 Div, Far East, 1946, 3 Div, Palestine, 1946-1947, and 5 Div, Germany, 1947-1948; attended Imperial Defence College, 1948; Brig, General Staff, Western Command, 1949-1951; ADC to King George VI, 1949-1952, and Queen Elizabeth II, 1952; Chief of Staff, Southern Command, 1951-1954; Maj Gen, 1952; General Officer Commanding 3 Infantry Div, Egypt, 1954-1957; Director of Military Training, War Office, 1957-1959; retired, 1959.
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
GB 0099 KCLMA Churcher 1984 Collection (fonds) 1 file Churcher , John Bryan , 1905-1997 , Major General
Born in 1905; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; 2nd Lt, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1925; Lt, 1927; Assistant Instructor, Small Arms School, Netheravon, 1931-1934; served in India, 1935-1938; Capt, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 1936; attended Staff College, Camberley, 1939; served in North West Europe, 1939-1940, and 1944-1946; various staff appointments, 1940-1942, including General Staff Officer Grade 2, Canadian Corps; Maj, 1942; commanded 1 Bn, Hereford Regt, 1942-1944, 159 Infantry Bde, 1944-1946, and 43 Div, 1946; commanded Northumbrian District, 1946; commanded 2 Div, Far East, 1946, 3 Div, Palestine, 1946-1947, and 5 Div, Germany, 1947-1948; attended Imperial Defence College, 1948; Brig, General Staff, Western Command, 1949-1951; ADC to King George VI, 1949-1952, and Queen Elizabeth II, 1952; Chief of Staff, Southern Command, 1951-1954; Maj Gen, 1952; General Officer Commanding 3 Infantry Div, Egypt, 1954-1957; Director of Military Training, War Office, 1957-1959; retired, 1959.
Copies made by the Centre from originals lent by Churcher in 1991.
Copy of 'A soldier's story', a memoir of his life and career, 1905-1984, notably his service in India, 1935-1938, North West Europe, 1939-1940 and 1944-1945, including the arrest of the Grand Adm Karl Doenitz (Operation BLACKOUT) in May 1945, Palestine, 1947, Germany, 1948, and Egypt, 1954-1957, including the Suez Crisis, 1956, written in 1984. Photographs relating to the arrest of Doenitz, Germany, 1945.
1 file
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.
English
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Shropshire Regiment Museum holds a copy of the memoir.
Decorations: CB, DSO
Nov 1996 Armed forces British Army Canals Churcher , John Bryan , 1905-1997 , Major General Documents Donitz , Karl , 1891-1980 , German Admiral Egypt Europe Germany India Information sources International conflicts International relations Memoirs Middle East Military engineering Military operations Military organizations North Africa Operation Blackout (1945) Organizations Palestine Photographs South Asia State security Suez Transport infrastructure Urban Visual materials War Warfare Waterways Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) Primary documents
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Copies made by the Centre from originals lent by Churcher in 1991.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Copy of 'A soldier's story', a memoir of his life and career, 1905-1984, notably his service in India, 1935-1938, North West Europe, 1939-1940 and 1944-1945, including the arrest of the Grand Adm Karl Doenitz (Operation BLACKOUT) in May 1945, Palestine, 1947, Germany, 1948, and Egypt, 1954-1957, including the Suez Crisis, 1956, written in 1984. Photographs relating to the arrest of Doenitz, Germany, 1945.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
1 file
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Condiciones
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.
Idioma del material
- inglés
Escritura del material
- latín
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
English
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descripción
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Shropshire Regiment Museum holds a copy of the memoir.
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Nota de publicación
Decorations: CB, DSO
Área de notas
Notas
Decorations: CB, DSO
Identificador/es alternativo(os)
Puntos de acceso
Puntos de acceso por materia
- Seguridad del Estado » Fuerzas armadas
- Infraestructura de transportes » Canal
- Documento
- Fuente de información
- Conflicto internacional
- Relaciones internacionales
- Ingeniería militar
- Ingeniería militar » Operación militar
- Organización
- Material visual » Fotografías
- Seguridad del Estado
- Infraestructura de transportes
- Material visual
- Conflicto internacional » Guerra
- Ingeniería militar » Arte de la guerra
- Documento » Documento primario
Puntos de acceso por lugar
Puntos de acceso por autoridad
Tipo de puntos de acceso
Área de control de la descripción
Identificador de la descripción
Identificador de la institución
Reglas y/o convenciones usadas
Estado de elaboración
Nivel de detalle
Fechas de creación revisión eliminación
Idioma(s)
- inglés