GB 0099 KCLMA Platt - PLATT, Gen Sir William (1885-1975)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Platt Created 1951 Collection (fonds) 1 volume

Born in 1885; educated at Marlborough College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; commissioned into Northumberland Fusiliers, 1905; served on North West Frontier, India, 1908; Capt, 1914; served in World War One, France and Belgium, 1914-1918; Bde Maj, 103 Infantry Bde, 1915-1916; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 21 Div, 1916-1917; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 2 Australian and New Zealand Corps and 22 Army Corps, 1917; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 37 Div, 1918-1920; Bde Maj, 12 Infantry Bde, 1 Eastern Command and Galway Bde, Irish Command, 1920-1922; Maj, 1924; Lt Col, 1930; Officer Commanding 2 Bn, Wiltshire Regt, 1930-1933; Col, 1933; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 3rd Div, Bulford, 1933-1934; Commander, 7 Infantry Bde, 1934-1938; ADC to the King, 1937-1938; Maj Gen, 1938; Commandant, Sudan Defence Force, 1938-1941; General Officer Commanding-in -Chief, East African Command, 1941-1945; Lt Gen, 1941; Col, Wiltshire Regt, 1942-1954; Gen, 1943; retired pay, 1945; died in 1975.

Presented to the Centre by Platt in 1963.

Bound copy of text of Platt's Lee Knowles lectures on 'The campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940-1941', given at Cambridge University, 1951.

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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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Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/htm.top

Imperial War Museum

Papers of Maj Gen William Alfred Dimoline (GB99 KCLMA Dimoline) contain letters from Platt, 1942-1943 (Ref: Dimoline 8/6). Papers of Gen Sir Alexander John Godley (GB99 KCLMA Godley) include two letters from Platt, 1941 and 1943. Imperial War Museum Department of Documents has papers relating to his service in East Africa, 1940-1941, including material on Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Ref: 69/58/A), the Department of Printed Books has a printed report 'Notes on operations in East Africa', 1941 (Ref: 514.53) and the Department of Photographs has slides, maps and photographs relating to his service in East Africa, 1940-1945, while the papers of F O Cave also contain material relating to Platt. The Sudan Archive, Durham University holds material relating to Platt in the papers of Kenneth David Druitt Henderson (539/5/6), Maj Gen Clement Arthur Milward (600/8/10-15) and John Hatton Bolt Orlebar (704/8/32-34).

Decorations: GBE, KCB, DSO
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Presented to the Centre by Platt in 1963.

Bound copy of text of Platt's Lee Knowles lectures on 'The campaign against Italian East Africa, 1940-1941', given at Cambridge University, 1951.

single item

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

Papers of Maj Gen William Alfred Dimoline (GB99 KCLMA Dimoline) contain letters from Platt, 1942-1943 (Ref: Dimoline 8/6). Papers of Gen Sir Alexander John Godley (GB99 KCLMA Godley) include two letters from Platt, 1941 and 1943. Imperial War Museum Department of Documents has papers relating to his service in East Africa, 1940-1941, including material on Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Ref: 69/58/A), the Department of Printed Books has a printed report 'Notes on operations in East Africa', 1941 (Ref: 514.53) and the Department of Photographs has slides, maps and photographs relating to his service in East Africa, 1940-1945, while the papers of F O Cave also contain material relating to Platt. The Sudan Archive, Durham University holds material relating to Platt in the papers of Kenneth David Druitt Henderson (539/5/6), Maj Gen Clement Arthur Milward (600/8/10-15) and John Hatton Bolt Orlebar (704/8/32-34).

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/htm.top

Imperial War Museum

Decorations: GBE, KCB, DSO

Decorations: GBE, KCB, DSO

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