GB 0099 KCLMA Woods A G - WOODS, Col Arthur Graham (fl 1943-1945)

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Reference code

GB 0099 KCLMA Woods A G

Title

WOODS, Col Arthur Graham (fl 1943-1945)

Date(s)

  • Created 1943-1945 (Creation)

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0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres

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Biographical history

Served with Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, [1943-1945].

Archival history

GB 0099 KCLMA Woods A G Created 1943-1945 Collection (fonds) 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres

Served with Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, [1943-1945].

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982.

Papers relating to his service with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1943-1945, principally comprising official report by [Woods] on waterproofing technology, 1945; official reports on the waterproofing of 'A' and 'B' vehicles and equipment, 1943-1945, by Brig Hugh Roberts Howard, Deputy Director Mechanical Engineering (Wading), War Office, 1944-1945; 'Waterproofing of army equipment for amphibious operations', official report by Woods, [1943-1945]; photographs of wading tests on army vehicles, 1944; Combined Operations pamphlets on the responsibilities of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1944, and the waterproofing of vehicles and equipment, 1944; 'The Army waded ashore', a typescript account of the role of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in the preparations for D Day, 6 Jun 1944, written by Woods in [1944-1945].

0.5 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 in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Decorations: DS0, MC
Jul 1997 Mechanical engineering International relations Electrical engineering State security Armed forces Warfare Amphibious warfare Visual materials Photographs International conflicts War Wars (events) World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Military engineering Military operations Operation Overlord (1944) Organizations Military organizations Transport Vehicles Motor vehicles Military equipment Howard , Hugh Roberts , b 1894 , Brigadier British Army Normandy France Western Europe Europe Equipment

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Presented to the Centre by the family in 1982.

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Scope and content

Papers relating to his service with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1943-1945, principally comprising official report by [Woods] on waterproofing technology, 1945; official reports on the waterproofing of 'A' and 'B' vehicles and equipment, 1943-1945, by Brig Hugh Roberts Howard, Deputy Director Mechanical Engineering (Wading), War Office, 1944-1945; 'Waterproofing of army equipment for amphibious operations', official report by Woods, [1943-1945]; photographs of wading tests on army vehicles, 1944; Combined Operations pamphlets on the responsibilities of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1944, and the waterproofing of vehicles and equipment, 1944; 'The Army waded ashore', a typescript account of the role of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in the preparations for D Day, 6 Jun 1944, written by Woods in [1944-1945].

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0.5 box

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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.

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Finding aids

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

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Decorations: DS0, MC

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Decorations: DS0, MC

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

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Language(s)

  • English

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