GB 0099 KCLMA MacFetridge - MACFETRIDGE, Lt Col Charles Hemphill Townsend (1913-2002)

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GB 0099 KCLMA MacFetridge 1987, 1995, 2000 Collection level one file or 0.01m3 MacFetridge , Charles Hemphill Townsend , 1913-2002 , Lieutenant Colonel

Born, 1913; commissioned into Royal Artillery as Second Lieutenant, 1933; 1 Light Battery, 1934-1935; Lieutenant, 1 Anti Aircraft Brigade, 1936-1938; Lieutenant, (Jacob's) Mountain Battery and 13 (Dardoni) Mountain Battery, 21 Mountain Regiment, North West Frontier, India, 1938-1941; Second in Command, 23 Indian Mountain Regiment, Burma, 1944-1945; Staff College, 1946; Major, 1946; Brigade Major, 10 Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Portsmouth, 1948; British Liaison Officer, XL Greek Infantry Brigade, British Military Mission to Greece, Apr-Oct 1948; Lieutenant Colonel, 1955; retired, 1960; Chairman, British Mule Society, 1993-1996; died 2002.

Publications: Tales of the Mountain Gunners. An anthology, compiled by those who served with them, ed MacFetridge, C and Warren, J, (Edinburgh: William Blackwood), 1973.

Presented to the Centre by the family, July 2004

Publications by Lt Col Charles MacFetridge: A Memoir of Greece in 1948: A Year of Crisis, privately published, 1987, detailing experiences as British Liaison Officer, XL Greek Infantry Brigade, British Military Mission to Greece, operating in the Pindhos, Grammos and Vitsi mountains, Apr-Oct 1948; Mules in the British Army', a tribute published on the website of the British Mule Society (article no longer available online), [1995]; and British Mule Society booklet The Military Mule in the British Army and Indian Army: An Anthology. Part III: The Mountain Artillery Mule, 2000. Also copy of articleTales from the bushy-topped tree: a brief survey of military sketching', PJ Gough, Imperial War Museum Review No 10, Nov 1995, including mention of MacFetridge.

One file as above.

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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The personal papers of Charles MacFetridge have been deposited with the National Army Museum.

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Presented to the Centre by the family, July 2004

Publications by Lt Col Charles MacFetridge: A Memoir of Greece in 1948: A Year of Crisis, privately published, 1987, detailing experiences as British Liaison Officer, XL Greek Infantry Brigade, British Military Mission to Greece, operating in the Pindhos, Grammos and Vitsi mountains, Apr-Oct 1948; Mules in the British Army', a tribute published on the website of the British Mule Society (article no longer available online), [1995]; and British Mule Society booklet The Military Mule in the British Army and Indian Army: An Anthology. Part III: The Mountain Artillery Mule, 2000. Also copy of articleTales from the bushy-topped tree: a brief survey of military sketching', PJ Gough, Imperial War Museum Review No 10, Nov 1995, including mention of MacFetridge.

One file as above.

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.

The personal papers of Charles MacFetridge have been deposited with the National Army Museum.

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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