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- 1900-1902 (Creation)
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Born 1879, educated at Eton College and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Lt, Mounted Infantry Company, 2nd Btn Manchester Regiment in South Africa, 1899-1901; on half pay 1901-1914. Capt 1903; recalled 1914, to command F Company, 3rd Btn, Manchester Regiment; served in France with 2nd Btn, Dec 1914-Sep 1915; Maj (Special Reserve) Feb 1915; invalided back to Britain, Sep 1915; Adjutant, 3rd Btn, Manchester Regiment (a holding Btn) Oct 1915-Feb 1917; DSO, 1916; posted to 2/9th Btn in France as second-in-command, Feb 1917; commanded 2/9th Btn Mar-Aug 1917; commanded 3rd Btn in England, Aug 1917-Nov 1918; CBE 1919; died 1948.
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GB 0099 KCLMA Thornycroft, C M 1900-1902 Collection (Fonds) 1 file (0.01 cubic metres) Thorneycroft , Charles Mytton , 1879-1948 , Lieutenant Colonel
Born 1879, educated at Eton College and Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Lt, Mounted Infantry Company, 2nd Btn Manchester Regiment in South Africa, 1899-1901; on half pay 1901-1914. Capt 1903; recalled 1914, to command F Company, 3rd Btn, Manchester Regiment; served in France with 2nd Btn, Dec 1914-Sep 1915; Maj (Special Reserve) Feb 1915; invalided back to Britain, Sep 1915; Adjutant, 3rd Btn, Manchester Regiment (a holding Btn) Oct 1915-Feb 1917; DSO, 1916; posted to 2/9th Btn in France as second-in-command, Feb 1917; commanded 2/9th Btn Mar-Aug 1917; commanded 3rd Btn in England, Aug 1917-Nov 1918; CBE 1919; died 1948.
Photocopies presented by family, Nov 1999
Photocopies of typescript copies of 84 letters from Lt Col Charles Mytton Thornycroft to his mother, Edith Frances Thornycroft (nee Cresswell), of Thornycroft Hall, Cheshire, from South Africa 19 Mar 1900 - 10 June 1902; includes voyage to South Africa on SS BAVARIAN; service at Magershoe Camp, Reddersburg, ; Dewetsdorp, Orange Free State; Bloemfontein Hospital, following attack of dysentery, including letter from Catherine Friend, the Sister in charge of sick officers; Winburgh Hospital, Norval's Point; The Glen, Orange River Colony; Harrisburg, Orange River Colony; Elands River; Ficksburg; Brindisi, Near Fouriesberg; Harrismith, Orange River Colony; Albertina, Orange River Colony; Oliver's Hoek, Orange River Colony and Barberton
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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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LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Ref GB 0099) holds memoir by Thornycroft's son, Capt Nigel Mytton Thornycroft on his experiences as a prisoner of war, 1944
Information supplied by family. Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Aug 2001
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Photocopies presented by family, Nov 1999
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Photocopies of typescript copies of 84 letters from Lt Col Charles Mytton Thornycroft to his mother, Edith Frances Thornycroft (nee Cresswell), of Thornycroft Hall, Cheshire, from South Africa 19 Mar 1900 - 10 June 1902; includes voyage to South Africa on SS BAVARIAN; service at Magershoe Camp, Reddersburg, ; Dewetsdorp, Orange Free State; Bloemfontein Hospital, following attack of dysentery, including letter from Catherine Friend, the Sister in charge of sick officers; Winburgh Hospital, Norval's Point; The Glen, Orange River Colony; Harrisburg, Orange River Colony; Elands River; Ficksburg; Brindisi, Near Fouriesberg; Harrismith, Orange River Colony; Albertina, Orange River Colony; Oliver's Hoek, Orange River Colony and Barberton
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one file
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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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LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Ref GB 0099) holds memoir by Thornycroft's son, Capt Nigel Mytton Thornycroft on his experiences as a prisoner of war, 1944
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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