GB 0099 KCLMA MISC: 53 and 54 - Misc: World War Two Home Guard Training Papers and Maps of the Western Front, 1914-1918

1 box

GB 0099 KCLMA MISC: 53 and 54 1916-1943 Collection (fonds) 1 box Ryland , John Patrick , d 1992

Papers bequethed to King's College London in 1992.

Home Guard training notes, booklets and maps, 1916-1943; comprising 2 folders of Home Guard papers consisting of typescript and manuscript exercise orders, training camp instructions, night training guidance, guidance notes on the use of weapons and training proficiency badge examination mark sheets, all relating to 61 Surrey (Norwood) Bn, 1941-1943; printed War Office Home Guard regulations, training and information booklets with a guide to German infantry, 1941-1943; maps of the Western Front, Belgium and France, 1916-1918, British and German, some showing trenches, focussing on the Hazebrouck and Senlis regions, and of the Western Front and of Europe in general published by the Daily Telegraph, Ordnance Survey and others; photographic panorama showing a stretch of front with identifying background features such as roads, settlements and woodland in the Neuve Chapelle area, [1916].

Arranged as above in the Scope and Content section.

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 and German

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

Maps of the Western Front in the Centre are found within the Benson, Blagrove, Brooke-Popham, Collins, Dimoline, Hodges, Liddell Hart and other collections. Home Guard papers include contents of the Adam, Maze, Sanders collections.

Copies of many Home Guard circulars and information booklets are located in the British Library. Other Home Guard and Western Front material can be found in the Imperial War Museum, Public Record Office, and elsewhere.

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for 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. June 2003 Armed forces Belgium British Army Educational evaluation Europe Examination marks Flanders France Hazebrouck Higher science education International conflicts International relations Maps Military education Military exercises Military organizations Neuve Chapelle Organizations Ryland , John Patrick , d 1992 Senlis State security Student evaluation Visual materials War Western Europe World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events)

Papers bequethed to King's College London in 1992.

Home Guard training notes, booklets and maps, 1916-1943; comprising 2 folders of Home Guard papers consisting of typescript and manuscript exercise orders, training camp instructions, night training guidance, guidance notes on the use of weapons and training proficiency badge examination mark sheets, all relating to 61 Surrey (Norwood) Bn, 1941-1943; printed War Office Home Guard regulations, training and information booklets with a guide to German infantry, 1941-1943; maps of the Western Front, Belgium and France, 1916-1918, British and German, some showing trenches, focussing on the Hazebrouck and Senlis regions, and of the Western Front and of Europe in general published by the Daily Telegraph, Ordnance Survey and others; photographic panorama showing a stretch of front with identifying background features such as roads, settlements and woodland in the Neuve Chapelle area, [1916].

Arranged as above in the Scope and Content section.

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 and German

Maps of the Western Front in the Centre are found within the Benson, Blagrove, Brooke-Popham, Collins, Dimoline, Hodges, Liddell Hart and other collections. Home Guard papers include contents of the Adam, Maze, Sanders collections.

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

Copies of many Home Guard circulars and information booklets are located in the British Library. Other Home Guard and Western Front material can be found in the Imperial War Museum, Public Record Office, and elsewhere.

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