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

RAMSBOTHAM, General Sir David John


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Ramsbotham

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

Title: RAMSBOTHAM, General Sir David John

Date(s): 1971-1997

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 13 boxes

Name of creator(s): Ramsbotham | Sir | David John | b 1934 | Knight | General

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1934; educated, Haileybury College; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA 1957, MA, 1973); National Service, 1952-1954; Rifle Bde, UK and British Army on the Rhine (BAOR), 1958-1962; seconded to King's African Rifles, 1962-1963; Staff College, 1964; Rifle Bde, Far East, 1965; Staff, 7 Armoured Bde, 1966-1968; 3 and 2 Green Jackets, BAOR, 1968-1971; Military Assistant to Chief of General Staff, 1971-1973; commanding officer, 2 Royal Green Jackets, 1974-1976; Staff, 4 Armoured Division, BAOR, 1976-1978; Commander, 39 Infantry Bde, 1978-1980; Royal College of Defence Studies, 1981; Director of Public Relations, British Army, 1982-1984; Commander, 3 Armoured Div, 1984-1987; Commander, UK Field Army and Inspector General, Territorial Army, 1987-1990; Adjutant General, 1990-1993; Aide-de-camp General to the Queen, 1990-1993; HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, 1995-2001.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir David Ramsbotham, including reports, correspondence, photographs, lecture texts, press cuttings and ephemera, relating to his career, 1974-1995.

Papers relating to Northern Ireland including Northern Ireland intelligence summaries, 22 Mar-11 Aug 1978; reports including report on 2nd Bn, Royal Green Jackets, Northern Ireland operations, Nov 1974-Feb 1975 and related correspondence; report on the organisation and operation of Bn search teams, 8 Aug 1974; report to Brigadier Ramsbotham from J.H. Dunlop on the subject of education in Belfast, 7 Jan 1980; 'Report on the situation in Belfast as at 14 July 1980'; report by Ramsbotham while commanding 39th Infantry Brigade to Major General Glover Commander Land Forces Northern Ireland, 15 Jul 1980 and situation report 39th Infantry Bde, Belfast, July 1980; training notes and reports; operation statistics, 6 Dec 1978-5 Dec 1979; papers relating to riot and crowd control in Northern Ireland, 19 Sep 1978; correspondence, 1971-1993, including two letters from Dervla Murphy Oct and Dec 1987; transcripts and notes for lectures on 2nd Bn, The Royal Green Jackets' time in Ireland between 1 Nov 1974 and 28 Feb 1975 and press cuttings and articles on Northern Ireland, 1971-1990.

Papers relating to the Falkland Islands including detailed account of Ramsbotham's tour, 23 Jun-1 Jul 1982; photographs; related press cuttings and notes on a 1989 visit.

Transcripts of speeches by Ramsbotham on defence and peacekeeping, 1982-1995; transcripts of speeches on military subjects by various speakers, 1982-1995; articles relating to defence 1959-1989; articles and talks by FM Lord Carver 1971-1996; papers relating to HRH Silver Jubilee review of the Army 1977; papers relating to official visits; papers relating to the United Nations, 1993-1997; booklets on military subjects, 1962-1995 and memoranda and copies of articles on defence and the media, 1982-1985.

Photographs including of the Falkland Islands visit; the opening of the Adjutant General Information Centre; Ramsbotham's early career; presentation of the Imperial Service medal to June Small; visit to the Guides Infantry; visit to the USA; visit to the UNISYS International management centre; visiting troops during winter training; visits by Col Gen Omelichev to Winchester and Winchester Cathedral; meeting soldiers on patrol; official visits in Germany; on exercise Lone Star; visiting commonwealth troops in India and Africa and a visit to Gibraltar.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Original order.

Conditions governing access:

Open. Visitors are required to provide proof of ID and sign an undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided 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 and Information Management, King's College London. All requests for clearance to quote or cite are to be referred to Lord Ramsbotham.

Finding aids:

Detailed box list available in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received from Lord Ramsbotham, 2005.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Who's Who.

Rules or conventions: 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.

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial countries | Political systems
Defence | State security
Falklands War (1982) | Wars (events)
Military operations | Military engineering
Terrorism | Crime
War | International conflicts

Personal names
Carver | Richard Michael Power | b 1915 | Baron Carver | Field Marshal
Glover | Sir | James Malcolm | 1929-2000 | General
Murphy | Dervla | b 1931 | cyclist and author
Omelichev | Bronislav | b 1935 | Chief of Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces | General
Ramsbotham | Sir | David John | b 1934 | Knight | General

Corporate names
British Army
United Nations

Places
Belfast | Northern Ireland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Falkland Islands | South America
Germany | Western Europe | Europe
Gibraltar | Western Europe | Europe
India | South Asia
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
USA | North America
Winchester | Hampshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Africa