GB 0099 KCLMA Taylor - TAYLOR, Lt Garth Smithies (1896-1916)

1 volume

GB 0099 KCLMA Taylor Created 1914-1917, 1959, 1971 Collection (fonds) 1 volume

Born in 1896; educated at Bedales School, Petersfield and Nottingham High School; studied accounting in London, then worked for a firm of camera and lens makers in Berlin; joined Army Service Corps as a clerk, 1914; 2nd Lt and Lt, 1915; transferred to 2 Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt); served in France, 1915-1916; killed in action, 1916.

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1974.

'Garth Smithies Taylor, 1896-1916', written by his sister Dorothea Taylor in 1971, and principally comprising copies of original documents, 1914-1917 and 1959, mainly letters to his family, 1914-1916, and extracts from his diary, 1914-1916, relating particularly to his service near Ypres, 1916, and in the Battle of the Somme, 1916.

1 volume

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 available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

  Oct 1996. Armed forces Belgium British Army Diaries Documents Europe France Information sources International conflicts International relations Literary forms and genres Literature Memoirs Military organizations Nonfiction Organizations Primary documents Prose Somme State security War Western Europe World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) Ypres Wars (events)

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1974.

'Garth Smithies Taylor, 1896-1916', written by his sister Dorothea Taylor in 1971, and principally comprising copies of original documents, 1914-1917 and 1959, mainly letters to his family, 1914-1916, and extracts from his diary, 1914-1916, relating particularly to his service near Ypres, 1916, and in the Battle of the Somme, 1916.

1 volume

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 available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

• Engels