Collection GB 0099 KCLMA Meechie - MEECHIE, Helen Guild (1938-2001)

4 boxes or 0.04 cubic metres

GB 0099 KCLMA Meechie 1943-2000 collection 4 boxes or 0.04 cubic metres Meechie , Helen Guild , 1938-2001 , Director of the WRAC

Publications originally belonging to Brig Helen Guild Meechie, Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) 1982-1986.

Received from the family, 2001

Printed manuals including Military History Burma 1943-1945 and Guide to new arrivals: the British Army in Cyprus, nd. Pamphlet histories of the Queen Mary's Auxiliary Corps, University of St Andrews Officer Training Corps, The Womens' Royal Army Corps, Royal College of Defence Studies and the Imperial Defence College. Official publications including 'Report on the staff/promotion examination 1967' and 'The Armed Forces Pension Scheme' [1991]; Womens' Royal Army Corps (WRAC) items including WRAC: Corps Memorandum, 1978; WRAC Liaison Notes, 1987; Corps Day programme, 15 Jun 1996 and WRAC concert programme, 21 Mar 1992. Biographies for the 1987 course at Royal College of Defence Studies and obituaries and portrait photograph of Meechie.

Publications, 1943-2000, chiefly on women in the Armed Forces including Lioness (journal of the Womens' Royal Army Corps Association), issues 1963-2000; Women in Khaki, Roy Terry (1988); Marlborough's Campaigns, Maycock (1956); Je Maintiendrai: a concise history of the Dutch Army, Amersfoort /Kamphuis (1985); Service with the Army, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1941); The Chilwell Story: VC factory and Ordnance Depot, Haslam (1982); Pig in the Middle: The Army in Northern Ireland, 1969-1984, Hamill (1985); The New Groundwork of British History, Warner, Marten & Muir (1943); F.A.N.Y. The Story of the Women's Transport Service, Hugh Popham (1985) and The Auxiliary Territorial Service, The War Office (1949).

Original order

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

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided 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, King's College London.

English

No additional finding aids.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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.

Feb 2008 Armed forces Cyprus Employment Europe FANI , First Aid Nursing Yeomanry x Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps Imperial Defence College Meechie , Helen Guild , 1938-2001 , Director of the WRAC Military organizations Myanmar Netherlands Northern Ireland Officer Training Corps , OTC Organizations Royal College of Defence Studies South East Asia St Andrews University State security UK WAAC , Women's Army Auxiliary Corps x Women's Army Auxiliary Corps x Queen Mary's Auxiliary Corps Western Europe Womens employment WRAC , Womens' Royal Army Corps x Womens' Royal Auxiliary Corps London England

Received from the family, 2001

Printed manuals including Military History Burma 1943-1945 and Guide to new arrivals: the British Army in Cyprus, nd. Pamphlet histories of the Queen Mary's Auxiliary Corps, University of St Andrews Officer Training Corps, The Womens' Royal Army Corps, Royal College of Defence Studies and the Imperial Defence College. Official publications including 'Report on the staff/promotion examination 1967' and 'The Armed Forces Pension Scheme' [1991]; Womens' Royal Army Corps (WRAC) items including WRAC: Corps Memorandum, 1978; WRAC Liaison Notes, 1987; Corps Day programme, 15 Jun 1996 and WRAC concert programme, 21 Mar 1992. Biographies for the 1987 course at Royal College of Defence Studies and obituaries and portrait photograph of Meechie.

Publications, 1943-2000, chiefly on women in the Armed Forces including Lioness (journal of the Womens' Royal Army Corps Association), issues 1963-2000; Women in Khaki, Roy Terry (1988); Marlborough's Campaigns, Maycock (1956); Je Maintiendrai: a concise history of the Dutch Army, Amersfoort /Kamphuis (1985); Service with the Army, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1941); The Chilwell Story: VC factory and Ordnance Depot, Haslam (1982); Pig in the Middle: The Army in Northern Ireland, 1969-1984, Hamill (1985); The New Groundwork of British History, Warner, Marten & Muir (1943); F.A.N.Y. The Story of the Women's Transport Service, Hugh Popham (1985) and The Auxiliary Territorial Service, The War Office (1949).

Original order

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

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided 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, King's College London.

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English

No additional finding aids.

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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