GB 0099 KCLMA Lumley - LUMLEY, Lt Col Richard Francis (1909-1994)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Lumley Created 1981 Collection (fonds) 1 file

Born in 1909; gazetted to Supplementary Reserve commission, Queen's Royal Regt, 1928; commissioned into North Staffordshire Regt, 1930; served briefly in Gibraltar and India before resigning in [1932]; worked for the Abbey Road Building Society, [1932-1934]; salesman, Coca Cola Company, 1936-1937, and H P Bulmer and Company Limited, 1937-1940; commissioned intoSouth Staffordshire Regt, 1940; served in UK, 1940-1943, and India, 1943-1945; worked for various brewers, 1945-1960, notably Bulmers and Taylor Walker and Company; died in 1984.

Copy made by the Centre in 1995 from original loaned by the family.

Photocopy of 'From carriage to Concorde', typescript memoir covering his life and career, 1917-1981, notably his military service in Gibraltar and India, 1930-[1932], in the UK, 1940-1943, and in India, 1943-1945, including an account of the explosion of the US ammunition ship FORT STIKINE, Bombay, Apr 1944, his work for the Abbey Road Building Society, [1932-1934], asa salesman, 1936-1940, and in the brewing industry, 1945-1960, written in 1981.

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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 entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Sep 1996 British Army International relations Transport Vehicles Ships State security Armed forces Colonial forces Political doctrines Imperialism Colonialism International conflicts War Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Organizations Military organizations Political systems Colonial countries Colonial administration Fort Stikine , US ammunition ship Mumbai Salsette Island Maharashtra India South Asia Gibraltar Western Europe Europe Bombay

Copy made by the Centre in 1995 from original loaned by the family.

Photocopy of 'From carriage to Concorde', typescript memoir covering his life and career, 1917-1981, notably his military service in Gibraltar and India, 1930-[1932], in the UK, 1940-1943, and in India, 1943-1945, including an account of the explosion of the US ammunition ship FORT STIKINE, Bombay, Apr 1944, his work for the Abbey Road Building Society, [1932-1934], asa salesman, 1936-1940, and in the brewing industry, 1945-1960, written in 1981.

Single item

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

• Latin

English

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

• English