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- 1956 (Creation)
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1 oversize box or 0.015 cubic metres
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Hugo Meynell was aide de camp to Gen Sir Hugh Stockwell, Suez, 1956.
Archival history
GB 0099 KCLMA Meynell 1956 Collection (fonds) 1 oversize box or 0.015 cubic metres Meynell , Hugo I , fl 1956 , aide de camp
Hugo Meynell was aide de camp to Gen Sir Hugh Stockwell, Suez, 1956.
Collection placed in LHCMA in 2007 via a historian researching the Suez.
Papers of Hugo I Meynell realting to the Suez crisis, 1956, including six detailed aerial photographs of Port Said, Egypt, Nov 1956; map of the Suez Canal, Egypt (scale: 100,000), produced by 2 Corps Headquarters, Oct 1956, showing the canal from Port Said to Suez, with glued-on enlargements (scale 1:25,000) of Port Fouad, El Qantara-el-Gharbiya, the western coast of the Great Bitter Lake, and the town of Suez and page from an Operations Log of 3 Infantry Div (typed on Suez Canal Company headed paper), detailing an attempted petrol bomb attack on a British patrol.
As outlined in the Scope and Content.
Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an undertaking form.
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.
Jun 2008 Aerial photographs Egypt International conflicts Maps Meynell , Hugo I , fl 1956 , aide de camp North Africa Photographs Political protests Port Said Suez Suez Canal Suez Crisis (1956) Urban Visual materials War Wars (events)
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Collection placed in LHCMA in 2007 via a historian researching the Suez.
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Scope and content
Papers of Hugo I Meynell realting to the Suez crisis, 1956, including six detailed aerial photographs of Port Said, Egypt, Nov 1956; map of the Suez Canal, Egypt (scale: 100,000), produced by 2 Corps Headquarters, Oct 1956, showing the canal from Port Said to Suez, with glued-on enlargements (scale 1:25,000) of Port Fouad, El Qantara-el-Gharbiya, the western coast of the Great Bitter Lake, and the town of Suez and page from an Operations Log of 3 Infantry Div (typed on Suez Canal Company headed paper), detailing an attempted petrol bomb attack on a British patrol.
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Accruals
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As outlined in the Scope and Content.
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Conditions governing access
Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction
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.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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English
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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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- English