GB 0099 KCLMA Ritchie - RITCHIE, Maj Gen Walter Henry Dennison (1901-1984)

1 volume

GB 0099 KCLMA Ritchie Created 1946-1947 Collection (fonds) 1 volume

Born in 1901; educated at St John's College, Southsea; 2nd Lt, Royal Army Signals Corps, 1925; Lt, 1927; Capt, 1935; Staff Capt, 1936-1939; served in France, North Africa and Italy, 1939-1945; Maj, 1939; Adjt, 1939; served with 15 Army Group, 1943; Deputy Quartermaster General to Gen Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Armies in Italy (15 Army Group), 1943-1944, and to Lt Gen Mark Wayne Clark, Commanding Gen, 15 Army Group, 1944-1945; Brig in charge of administration, British Troops in Egypt and Chairman of Operation SATIRE Works Committee, 1946-1947; Maj Gen, 1953; Director of Quartering, War Office, 1953-1954; Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office, 1954-1957; retired, 1957; Col Commandant, Royal Army Signal Corps, 1959-1964; Honorary Col, 101 Army Emergency Reserve Regt, Royal Corps of Transport, 1965-1967; died in 1984.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1993.

Bound minutes of meetings of Operation SATIRE Works Committee meetings, Jul 1946-Mar 1947, concerning the provision of accommodation for military units moving to the Canal Zone, Egypt.

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.
English

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

Decorations: CB, CBE
Feb 1997 Egypt Military engineering Military logistics Military operations North Africa Operation Satire (1946-1947) Suez Canal Warfare

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1993.

Bound minutes of meetings of Operation SATIRE Works Committee meetings, Jul 1946-Mar 1947, concerning the provision of accommodation for military units moving to the Canal Zone, Egypt.

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

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

Decorations: CB, CBE

Decorations: CB, CBE

• Engels