GB 0099 KCLMA Willcox - WILLCOX, Lt Col Walter Temple (1869-1943)

10 boxes

GB 0099 KCLMA Willcox 1881-1918 Collection (fonds) 10 boxes Willcox , Walter Temple , 1869-1943 , Lt Col
Born, 1869; 18 King's Own Hussars; 2 Lt 5 Royal Irish Lancers, 1893; Major, 3 King's Own Hussars, 1906; Lt Col commanding 3 Hussars, 1915-1921; retired, 1921; Adjutant 5 Lancers, and of the Imperial Light Horse and South African Constabulary, served throughout South African (Boer) War, and wounded in defence of Ladysmith; died 1943.

Publications: The 3rd (King's Own) Hussars in the Great War, 1914-1919 (John Murray, London, 1925).

Placed in the Centre by the family in three tranches, 1991-1992.

Papers, 1881-1926; notably war diaries of the 3 Hussars during World War One, 1914-1919; private diary of Willcox, 1914; intelligence summaries with translated extracts from German documents, 1917-1918; typescript account of the 3 Hussars at Warneton, Belgium, Oct 1914; typescript account of the action of the 3 Hussars at Liez, France, March 1918 and near Hourges, France, Apr 1918; aerial photographs showing trench network, Beaucamp, France, 1916; copy of a diary by Willcox compiled during the siege of Ladysmith, South Africa, with two popular printed commemorative volumes describing the siege, 1899-1900; diary by Willcox of a visit by him as an observer of German army manoeuvres, Berlin area, with photographs, 1909; letters sent by Willcox to his parents and other relatives, 1881-1900; photographs of India, South Africa during the Boer War, in 1910 and the Western Front during World War One, showing groups of soldiers, equipment, the interiors and exteriors of buildings, including in Pretoria, of military exercises, parades, preparation for possible gas attack and of French chateaux, [1889-1919]; various papers compiled by Willcox during the compilation of his history of the 3 Hussars including operational summaries, biographical information and drawings and photographs, with reviews of Willcox's publications, 1908-1926; watercolours of the French landscape during World War One; manuscript hunting journal including detailed diaries and records of pig-sticking, tiger shooting and other hunts in Africa, Scotland and India, 1894-1932; colour illustrations of soldiers in various antique constumes.

Four tranches, 1991-1992.

The collection is divided up into diary, correspondence and photographic sections as outlined above in the Scope and Content section.

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 for Archive Services.
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Some items are outsize.

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

Liddell Hart Centre: account of the Siege of Ladysmith (Hamilton 2/1/1-2). Other Boer War papers include Foulkes 3/11-12, 3/4, 3/6, Allenby 1/2/139, 1/2/143, 1/2/26, 5/13, Maurice 3/1/2/1. Western Front papers include Ismay 3/2, Adam 1/1 and Kiggell 5.

Decorations: Companion, Order of St Michael and St George; Croix de Guerre.
Entry compiled by Geoff Browell for the RSLP AIM25 Project. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000. July 2003 Wars (events) Armed forces Beaucamp Belgium Berlin British Army Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Diaries Documents Europe France Germany Higher science education History Hourges Hunting India Information sources International conflicts International relations Ladysmith Liez Literary forms and genres Literature Military engineering Military exercises Military history Military intelligence Military organizations Nonfiction Organizations Primary documents Prose Province of Kwazulu-Natal Scotland Second Boer War, 1899-1902 South Africa South Asia Southern Africa State security UK War War diaries Warfare Warneton Western Europe Willcox , Walter Temple , 1869-1943 , Lieutenant Colonel World War One (1914-1918) World wars (events) London England Military science Social sciences

Placed in the Centre by the family in three tranches, 1991-1992.

Papers, 1881-1926; notably war diaries of the 3 Hussars during World War One, 1914-1919; private diary of Willcox, 1914; intelligence summaries with translated extracts from German documents, 1917-1918; typescript account of the 3 Hussars at Warneton, Belgium, Oct 1914; typescript account of the action of the 3 Hussars at Liez, France, March 1918 and near Hourges, France, Apr 1918; aerial photographs showing trench network, Beaucamp, France, 1916; copy of a diary by Willcox compiled during the siege of Ladysmith, South Africa, with two popular printed commemorative volumes describing the siege, 1899-1900; diary by Willcox of a visit by him as an observer of German army manoeuvres, Berlin area, with photographs, 1909; letters sent by Willcox to his parents and other relatives, 1881-1900; photographs of India, South Africa during the Boer War, in 1910 and the Western Front during World War One, showing groups of soldiers, equipment, the interiors and exteriors of buildings, including in Pretoria, of military exercises, parades, preparation for possible gas attack and of French chateaux, [1889-1919]; various papers compiled by Willcox during the compilation of his history of the 3 Hussars including operational summaries, biographical information and drawings and photographs, with reviews of Willcox's publications, 1908-1926; watercolours of the French landscape during World War One; manuscript hunting journal including detailed diaries and records of pig-sticking, tiger shooting and other hunts in Africa, Scotland and India, 1894-1932; colour illustrations of soldiers in various antique constumes.

Four tranches, 1991-1992.

The collection is divided up into diary, correspondence and photographic sections as outlined above in the Scope and Content section.

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 for Archive Services.

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Liddell Hart Centre: account of the Siege of Ladysmith (Hamilton 2/1/1-2). Other Boer War papers include Foulkes 3/11-12, 3/4, 3/6, Allenby 1/2/139, 1/2/143, 1/2/26, 5/13, Maurice 3/1/2/1. Western Front papers include Ismay 3/2, Adam 1/1 and Kiggell 5.

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

Decorations: Companion, Order of St Michael and St George; Croix de Guerre.

Decorations: Companion, Order of St Michael and St George; Croix de Guerre.

National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

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