GB 0099 KCLMA Poole - POOLE, Maj Gen Sir Frederick Cuthbert (1869-1936)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Poole Created 1917-1919 Collection (fonds) 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Born 1869; commissioned into the Royal Artillery, 1889; Lt, 1892; served Tirah Expedition, North West Frontier, India, 1897-1898; Capt, 1899; served in Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; awarded DSO, 1902; service with Somaliland Field Force, 1903-1904; served in Northern Nigeria, 1904; Maj, 1909; retired 1914; re-employed by Army, 1914; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Lt Col, 1915; Brevet Col, 1917; awarded CMG, 1917; temporary Maj Gen, 1917; awarded CB, 1918; General Officer Commanding, North Russia Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919; created KBE, 1919; Hon Maj Gen, 1920; retired 1920; died 1936.

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1980.

Papers relating to the British Military Mission to the Volunteer Army under Gen Anton Ivanovich Denikin, South Russia, 1917-1919, and Poole's tenure as General Officer Commanding, North Russia Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919, including maps of Russia, various scales, 1917-1919; typescript report by Capt George A Hill, RAF, entitled 'Report of work done in Russia to end of 1917', 27 Nov 1918; printed War Office report entitled 'Report on visit of British Military Mission to the Volunteer Army under General Denikin in South Russia', Nov-Dec 1918; printed booklet entitled 'A brief review of the liberation of the Don province from the yoke of the bolscheviks and of the beginning of the strife for the restoration of the unity of Russia', 1918; printed War Office report entitled 'Appreciation of the internal situation in Russia', 12 Jan 1919; typescript 'Report of a visit to the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army in South Russia', by Poole, Feb 1919.

3 files

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 Russian

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

The Liddle Collection, Leeds University, contains a copy of a report by Poole on a visit to the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army, North Russia, 1918-1919. The privately held papers of Rt Hon Sir Francis (Oswald) Lindley contain orders by Poole, North Russia, 1918-1919.

Decorations: KBE, CB, CMG, DSO
Sep 1998 Armed forces Civil war Denikin , Anton Ivanovich , 1872-1947 , Russian General Diplomacy Eastern Europe Foreign relations Hill , George A , fl 1917-1918 , Captain International conflicts International relations Military missions Military organizations Organizations Political movements Poole , Sir , Frederick Cuthbert , 1869-1936 , Knight , Major General RAF , Royal Air Force x Royal Air Force Russia Russian Civil War (1917-1922) State security War Crimea

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1980.

Papers relating to the British Military Mission to the Volunteer Army under Gen Anton Ivanovich Denikin, South Russia, 1917-1919, and Poole's tenure as General Officer Commanding, North Russia Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919, including maps of Russia, various scales, 1917-1919; typescript report by Capt George A Hill, RAF, entitled 'Report of work done in Russia to end of 1917', 27 Nov 1918; printed War Office report entitled 'Report on visit of British Military Mission to the Volunteer Army under General Denikin in South Russia', Nov-Dec 1918; printed booklet entitled 'A brief review of the liberation of the Don province from the yoke of the bolscheviks and of the beginning of the strife for the restoration of the unity of Russia', 1918; printed War Office report entitled 'Appreciation of the internal situation in Russia', 12 Jan 1919; typescript 'Report of a visit to the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army in South Russia', by Poole, Feb 1919.

3 files

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 Russian

The Liddle Collection, Leeds University, contains a copy of a report by Poole on a visit to the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army, North Russia, 1918-1919. The privately held papers of Rt Hon Sir Francis (Oswald) Lindley contain orders by Poole, North Russia, 1918-1919.

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

Decorations: KBE, CB, CMG, DSO

Decorations: KBE, CB, CMG, DSO

• English