GB 0099 KCLMA Smith - SMITH, Capt Ralph C

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GB 0099 KCLMA Smith

Title

SMITH, Capt Ralph C

Date(s)

  • Created 1915-1917 (Creation)

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2 files

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Biographical history

Served with Northumbrian (County of Durham) (Howitzer) Bde, France and Belgium, 1915-1917.

Archival history

GB 0099 KCLMA Smith Created 1915-1917 Collection (fonds) 2 files

Served with Northumbrian (County of Durham) (Howitzer) Bde, France and Belgium, 1915-1917.

Copies made by the Centre in 1981 from originals loaned by the family.

Copy of typescript diary of his service on the Western Front, 1915-1917, notably in the second Battle of Ypres, Apr 1915, the Battle of the Somme, Aug-Sep 1916, and the Battle of Arras, Apr 1917.

single item

Open, subject to signature of reader's 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.
English

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

Jul 1997 Wars (events) Armed forces Arras Belgium British Army Diaries Documents Europe France Information sources International conflicts International relations Literary forms and genres Literature Military organizations Nonfiction Organizations Primary documents Prose Somme State security War Western Europe World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) Ypres

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Copies made by the Centre in 1981 from originals loaned by the family.

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Copy of typescript diary of his service on the Western Front, 1915-1917, notably in the second Battle of Ypres, Apr 1915, the Battle of the Somme, Aug-Sep 1916, and the Battle of Arras, Apr 1917.

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single item

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

Conditions governing reproduction

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.

Language of material

  • English

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  • Latin

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English

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

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

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  • English

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