GB 0099 KCLMA Meates - MEATES, Lt Col Geoffrey Wells (1900-1985)

0.07 cubic metres (7 boxes)

GB 0099 KCLMA Meates 1919-1947 Collection (fonds) 0.07 cubic metres (7 boxes) Meates , Geoffrey Wells , 1900-1985 , Lieutenant Colonel
Born, 1900; educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from 1919; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1921; service with Royal Artillery, Shoeburyness, Essex, 1921; served with 4 Bde, Royal Artillery, India, 1921-1924; Adjutant, Royal Artillery, India, 1924-1927; Adjutant, 3 (Rangoon) Bde, Royal Artillery (Auxiliary Force), Rangoon, Burma, May-Sep 1927; served at Spike Island, Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, 1929-1930; service as Instructor, Royal Artillery, Clarence Barracks, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1931-1932; Capt, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1932-1936; retired, Dec 1936; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Instructor, Anti Aircraft militia (Royal Artillery), 1939; served as Capt, 15 Anti Aircraft Battery, 6 Anti Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, British Expeditionary Force (BEF), France, 1939; served with 1 Light Anti Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery, BEF, France, Jan-May 1940; Maj, 2 Anti Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, 1940; service with 27 Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery, Malta, 1940-1942; Lt Col, 7 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regt, Royal Artillery, Malta, 1942-1944, and in Workington, Cumberland, Orkney Islands, and Sandwich, Kent, 1944-1945; retired, 1945; excavated the Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent; died, 1985. Publications: Lullingstone Roman villa (William Heinemann, London, 1955); Lullingstone Roman villa, Kent (HMSO, London, 1963); The Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent. Vol 1. The site (Kent Archaeological Society, Maidstone, Kent, 1979); The Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent. Vol 2. The wall paintings and finds (Kent Archaeological Society, Maidstone, Kent, 1987).

Placed in the Centre by Meates' literary executor in 1986.

Papers, 1919-1947, of Lt Col Geoffrey Wells Meates, comprising his diaries, 1919, 1921-1939, 1943-1947, containing detailed narrative entries daily, and correspondence with his parents, 1921-1935, 1939-1945. Meates' diaries and letters record his activities, experiences, surroundings and travels, including his service with the Royal Artillery in Rangoon, Burma, and Calcutta, India, in the 1920s, and with Anti-Aircraft Artillery units in France (British Expeditionary Force, 1939-1940), Malta (1940-1944) and England (1944-1945) during World War Two.

Meates' diaries (Ref: I) are arranged chronologically by volume and then by loose leaves; correspondence with his parents (Ref: II) is arranged chronologically.

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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Collection level description available in reading room at Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and online at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma; detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the reading room.

Compiled by Iain Mutch; revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. 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. Nov 1999, Mar 2001 Anti-aircraft defence Armed forces Artillery British Army Defence Diaries Documents Europe India Information sources International conflicts Literary forms and genres Literature Malta Meates , Geoffrey Wells , 1900-1985 , Lieutenant Colonel Military equipment Military organizations Nonfiction Organizations Primary documents Prose Royal Artillery South Asia State security UK War Weapons Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) London England Equipment

Placed in the Centre by Meates' literary executor in 1986.

Papers, 1919-1947, of Lt Col Geoffrey Wells Meates, comprising his diaries, 1919, 1921-1939, 1943-1947, containing detailed narrative entries daily, and correspondence with his parents, 1921-1935, 1939-1945. Meates' diaries and letters record his activities, experiences, surroundings and travels, including his service with the Royal Artillery in Rangoon, Burma, and Calcutta, India, in the 1920s, and with Anti-Aircraft Artillery units in France (British Expeditionary Force, 1939-1940), Malta (1940-1944) and England (1944-1945) during World War Two.

Meates' diaries (Ref: I) are arranged chronologically by volume and then by loose leaves; correspondence with his parents (Ref: II) is arranged chronologically.

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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English

Collection level description available in reading room at Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and online at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma; detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the reading room.

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