GB 0099 KCLMA Hardy-Roberts - HARDY-ROBERTS, Brig Sir Geoffrey (Paul) (1907-1997)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Hardy-Roberts Created 1945 Collection (fonds) 1 file

Born 1907; educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into the 9 (Queen's Royal) Lancers, 1926; served in India; Lt, 1929; Adjutant, 1933-1935; stationed in Edinburgh and Tidworth, Wiltshire, 1933-1937; Capt, 1935; retired from Army, 1937; Member of London County Council, 1938-1945; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Lt Col, 1941; awarded OBE, 1941; service in Western Desert, Sicily and Italy, 1941-1944; War Substantive Lt Col, 1943; temporary Brig, 1943; Chief of Staff to Gen Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, General Officer Commanding 2 Army, 21 Army Group, 1943-1945; awarded CBE, 1944; served in North West Europe, 1944-1945; awarded CB, 1945; Officer, US Legion of Merit, 1945; Conservative candidate for Wimbledon in General Election, 1945; Secretary-Superintendent of Middlesex Hospital, 1946-1967; Justice of the Peace, West Sussex, 1960; Deputy Lieutenant, West Sussex (formerly Sussex), 1964; High Sheriff, Sussex, 1965; Master of HM's Household, 1967-1973; Extra Equerry to the Queen, 1967-1997; created KCVO, 1972; Deputy Chairman, King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, West Sussex, 1972-1982; Member ofWest Sussex Area Health Authority, 1974-1982; died 1997.

Placed in the Centre by Maj Gen Thomas Anthony Boam in 1999.

Two typescript copy letters home by Hardy-Roberts, written from British Red Cross Commission, theNetherlands, 6 May 1945, describing in detail the local reaction to the German surrender.

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

The papers of Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor contain a letter from Hardy-Roberts, Headquarters 2Army, relating to the mail service for the Belgian Bde, 23 Oct 1944 (Ref: O'Connor 5/3/74).

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Placed in the Centre by Maj Gen Thomas Anthony Boam in 1999.

Two typescript copy letters home by Hardy-Roberts, written from British Red Cross Commission, theNetherlands, 6 May 1945, describing in detail the local reaction to the German surrender.

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.

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The papers of Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor contain a letter from Hardy-Roberts, Headquarters 2Army, relating to the mail service for the Belgian Bde, 23 Oct 1944 (Ref: O'Connor 5/3/74).

Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and in hard copy in the reading room.

• Engels