GB 0099 KCLMA Scott - SCOTT, Lt Col Kenneth Farish (b 1918)

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GB 0099 KCLMA Scott

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SCOTT, Lt Col Kenneth Farish (b 1918)

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  • Created 1993 (Creation)

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1 file

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Born in 1918; educated at Stockton Grammar School and Constantine Technical College; served with Royal Engineers, 1939-1946; engineer in charge of demolition during the SOE attack on the Asopos Viaduct, Greece, May-Jun 1943; joined Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, 1946; Resident Engineer, Hydro-Electric Works, Scotland, 1946-1952; Chief Representative, New Zealand, 1952-1955, and Scotland, 1955-1959; Partner, 1959, and Senior Partner, 1977; responsible for design and supervision of construction of various major water resource development projects, maritime works and international airports.

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GB 0099 KCLMA Scott Created 1993 Collection (fonds) 1 file

Born in 1918; educated at Stockton Grammar School and Constantine Technical College; served with Royal Engineers, 1939-1946; engineer in charge of demolition during the SOE attack on the Asopos Viaduct, Greece, May-Jun 1943; joined Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, 1946; Resident Engineer, Hydro-Electric Works, Scotland, 1946-1952; Chief Representative, New Zealand, 1952-1955, and Scotland, 1955-1959; Partner, 1959, and Senior Partner, 1977; responsible for design and supervision of construction of various major water resource development projects, maritime works and international airports.

Presented to the Centre by Scott in 1993.

'The attack on the Asopos Viaduct in German occupied Greece', May-Jun 1943, written in 1993.

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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 and due to be published in hard copy.

The papers of Brig Edmund Charles Wolf Myers contain additional reports by Scott on the attack, dated 1943 and [1944] (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Myers 16).

Decorations: MC
Feb 1997 Wars (events) Armed forces Documents Europe Greece Information sources International conflicts International relations Memoirs Military engineering Military operations Military organizations Organizations Special forces State security War Warfare Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Primary documents

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Presented to the Centre by Scott in 1993.

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'The attack on the Asopos Viaduct in German occupied Greece', May-Jun 1943, written in 1993.

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single item

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Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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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

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  • Latin

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English

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The papers of Brig Edmund Charles Wolf Myers contain additional reports by Scott on the attack, dated 1943 and [1944] (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Myers 16).

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Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.

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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

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  • English

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