GB 0099 KCLMA Kilner Brown - KILNER BROWN, Col Hon Sir Ralph 1909-2003

one file or 0.01m3

GB 0099 KCLMA Kilner Brown 1945, 1994, 2003 collection level one file or 0.01m3 Kilner Brown , Hon Sir , Ralph , 1909-2003 , Colonel , Knight

Born 1909; educated Kingswood School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; joined Territorial Army, 1938; commissioned, 2 Lieutenant, March 1939; called up, July 1939; Deputy Adjutant and Quarter Master General, North West Europe Plans; Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters 53 Welsh Division, 1943; Assistant Quarter Master General (Planning), Chief Of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander; Lieutenant Colonel Quartering (Operations) and Brigadier Quartering Staff Headquarters, 21 Army Group, 1944; compiled Army textbook on Administration in the Field of War, 1945; retired with rank of Honorary Colonel, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, 1952; died, 2003.

Publications: Top brass and no brass. The inside story of the alliance of Britain and America (Lewes, 1991).

Presented to the Centre by the family, April 2004

Copies of papers relating to the life and military service of Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, 1944-1945, 1994, 2003, including: front page and flyleaf of A collection of Field Marshal Montgomery's personal messages to 21 Army Group, Normandy to the Baltic, 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945 (21 Army Group, 1945) featuring signatures of FM Bernard Law Montgomery and other staff; HQ 21 Army Group Q Cavalcade, caricatures of 21 Army Group HQ personnel by Diz', including Maj Gen Miles Graham, Maj GenGerry' Feilden, Brig Lymer, Col Charles Hardie, Col W H Jackson, Lt Col Koko' Weldon, Lt Col McLintock, Major Brockelbande, Maj Parry, Maj Paul Wright, Sheena Strachan, Peggy Metcalfe, Brenda Chapher, SSM Moyston and Col Ralph Kilner Brown, 1944; article by Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown,D-DAY: a great day for Britain' published in Vintage Times, 1994; and obituaries of Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, 2003.

One file as above in Scope and Content.

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

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 Archives and Information Management.
English

Summary guide entry on-line.

The originals are retained by the family.

Decorations: OBE (Mil), TD, DL
Entry compiled 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. July 2007 Wars (events) Caricatures Drawings International conflicts Kilner Brown , Hon Sir , Ralph , 1909-2003 , Colonel , Knight Montgomery , Bernard Law , 1887-1976 , 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead , Field Marshal x Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead , 1st Viscount Visual materials War World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Illustrations

Presented to the Centre by the family, April 2004

Copies of papers relating to the life and military service of Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, 1944-1945, 1994, 2003, including: front page and flyleaf of A collection of Field Marshal Montgomery's personal messages to 21 Army Group, Normandy to the Baltic, 6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945 (21 Army Group, 1945) featuring signatures of FM Bernard Law Montgomery and other staff; HQ 21 Army Group Q Cavalcade, caricatures of 21 Army Group HQ personnel by Diz', including Maj Gen Miles Graham, Maj GenGerry' Feilden, Brig Lymer, Col Charles Hardie, Col W H Jackson, Lt Col Koko' Weldon, Lt Col McLintock, Major Brockelbande, Maj Parry, Maj Paul Wright, Sheena Strachan, Peggy Metcalfe, Brenda Chapher, SSM Moyston and Col Ralph Kilner Brown, 1944; article by Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown,D-DAY: a great day for Britain' published in Vintage Times, 1994; and obituaries of Colonel Sir Ralph Kilner Brown, 2003.

One file as above in Scope and Content.

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification.

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 Archives and Information Management.

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English

Summary guide entry on-line.

Decorations: OBE (Mil), TD, DL

Decorations: OBE (Mil), TD, DL

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.

• English