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Date(s)
- Created 1938-[1943], 1948-1951 (Creation)
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1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1906; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1939; Maj, 1947; Lt Col commanding Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters, 1951-1955; died in 1981.
Archival history
GB 0099 KCLMA Vallance Created 1938-[1943], 1948-1951 Collection (fonds) 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres
Born in 1906; 2nd Lt, Royal Artillery, 1939; Maj, 1947; Lt Col commanding Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters, 1951-1955; died in 1981.
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.
Papers relating to his military service, 1938-[1943], 1948-1951, principally comprising papers relating to anti-aircraft searchlight training, 1938-[1943], including 'The training of the anti-aircraft searchlight spotter' by Capt Lancelot Edgar Conhop Mervyn Perowne, reprinted from The Royal Engineers Journal, Sep 1938, and School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and School of Anti-Aircraft Defence course notes and papers, [1939-1943]; military and War Office editions of Ordnance Survey maps of North Midlands, Lincolnshire and East Anglia, 1939, 1941, 1948-1949; 'The officer and fighting efficiency', pamphlet issued by War Office, 1941; notes relating to Company and Battery Commanders' Course No 5, Army School of Chemical Warfare, 1944; 5 Anti-Aircraft Group training directives and operational orders, 1949; orders, instructions and other papers relating to 58 Anti-Aircraft Bde, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) Exercises DERWENT and CORGI, 1950.
1 box.
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 due in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Decorations: OBE, TD
Jul 1997 Air defence Armed forces Artillery British Army Chemical warfare Defence England Europe Higher science education International conflicts International relations Lincolnshire Maps Military education Military engineering Military equipment Military exercises Military organizations Organizations State security UK Visual materials War Warfare Weapons Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) London Equipment
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.
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Scope and content
Papers relating to his military service, 1938-[1943], 1948-1951, principally comprising papers relating to anti-aircraft searchlight training, 1938-[1943], including 'The training of the anti-aircraft searchlight spotter' by Capt Lancelot Edgar Conhop Mervyn Perowne, reprinted from The Royal Engineers Journal, Sep 1938, and School of Anti-Aircraft Artillery and School of Anti-Aircraft Defence course notes and papers, [1939-1943]; military and War Office editions of Ordnance Survey maps of North Midlands, Lincolnshire and East Anglia, 1939, 1941, 1948-1949; 'The officer and fighting efficiency', pamphlet issued by War Office, 1941; notes relating to Company and Battery Commanders' Course No 5, Army School of Chemical Warfare, 1944; 5 Anti-Aircraft Group training directives and operational orders, 1949; orders, instructions and other papers relating to 58 Anti-Aircraft Bde, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army) Exercises DERWENT and CORGI, 1950.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
1 box.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction
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.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and due in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
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Publication note
Decorations: OBE, TD
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Note
Decorations: OBE, TD
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- State security » Armed forces
- State security » Defence
- Higher science education
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Visual materials » Maps
- Higher science education » Military education
- Military engineering
- Military equipment
- Organizations
- State security
- Visual materials
- International conflicts » War
- Military engineering » Warfare
- Military equipment » Weapons
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Language(s)
- English