GB 0099 KCLMA Newman, S R - NEWMAN, Colonel Sir Stuart (Richard) (1919-2002)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Newman, S R 1939-1994 Collection (fonds) 1 box Newman , Sir , Stuart (Richard) , 1919-2002 , Knight , Colonel

Born, 1919; worked at Maples department store; joined the Middlesex Yeomanry (TA); commissioned into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Kent) after the outbreak of the Second World War, 1939; fought with the 2nd battalion in the Western Desert before being posted to India in 1944 as an instructor at the tactical school; returned to England,1945; served as a company commander and training officer at Eaton Hall Officer Cadet Training Unit, 1945-1948; London Rifle Brigade (TA), 1948; joined the Conservative Party, 1949; recalled to the Regular Army, 1951-1953; commander of the London Rifle Brigade (TA), 1959; second-in-command of the 56th London Infantry Brigade, (TA), 1962; Conservative Party agent for Eton and Slough, Lambeth and Buxton and then London and Westminster; trained Conservative Party agents at Central Office, mid-1960s; assistant to Reginald Maudling, Anthony Barber and William Whitelaw in the 1966 and 1970 elections; retired, 1984; died, 2002.

Received from the family, 2004.

Papers of Colonel Sir Stuart (Richard) Newman, 1916-1994, including call up and telegram, Aug 1939; letters home, [1940-1945]; two portrait photographs, [1940] and [1944]; photograph album, 1941-1942; letter to Newman, Mar 1948, from three former Luxembourg cadets, requesting confirmation of their Officer Cadet Training Unit training under Newman, 1945-1946; White Paper, 'Re-organisation of the army reserves' (HMSO, Dec 1965), and related press statement, Dec 1965, by the Council of Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Associations; correspondence, Mar 1993 - Mar 1994, relating to the future of the Territorial Army; photograph album of Newman's father, Capt Thomas Pacey Newman, 1916-[1924], and photocopy letter from Mrs Newman (wife of Thomas, mother of Stuart), to her son Roland, 9 Jun 1944, with eye witness description of planes and gliders leaving for France, evening of 6 Jun, with transcript.

Original order.

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 Archive Services and Information Management, King's College London.

English

Box list available in the Centre's reading room.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1407299/Sir-Stuart-Newman.html

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.

Oct 2008 Military training International conflicts War Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Higher science education Military education Transport Vehicles Aircraft Fixed wing aircraft Gliders (aeronautics) Newman , Sir , Stuart (Richard) , 1919-2002 , Knight , Colonel Territorial Army France Western Europe Europe

Received from the family, 2004.

Papers of Colonel Sir Stuart (Richard) Newman, 1916-1994, including call up and telegram, Aug 1939; letters home, [1940-1945]; two portrait photographs, [1940] and [1944]; photograph album, 1941-1942; letter to Newman, Mar 1948, from three former Luxembourg cadets, requesting confirmation of their Officer Cadet Training Unit training under Newman, 1945-1946; White Paper, 'Re-organisation of the army reserves' (HMSO, Dec 1965), and related press statement, Dec 1965, by the Council of Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Associations; correspondence, Mar 1993 - Mar 1994, relating to the future of the Territorial Army; photograph album of Newman's father, Capt Thomas Pacey Newman, 1916-[1924], and photocopy letter from Mrs Newman (wife of Thomas, mother of Stuart), to her son Roland, 9 Jun 1944, with eye witness description of planes and gliders leaving for France, evening of 6 Jun, with transcript.

Original order.

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 Archive Services and Information Management, King's College London.

• English

• Latin

English

Box list available in the Centre's 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