IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Bride
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: BRIDE, Maj George Frederic (1912-1987)
Date(s): 1912-[1980]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Bride | George Frederic | 1912-1987 | Major
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1912; educated, King Edwards Grammar School, Birmingham, 1924; journalist at Birmingham Mail; entered the Prison Service, 1938; Territorial Army; 6 Cavalry Brigade, 1939; Palestine, 1940; Western Desert Force, 1940; attached to the Sudan Government, survey of overland routes from Uganda to Sudan; Inspector of Prisons, Eritrea, 1941-1944; British Army on the Rhine, 1945; Prison Service; died, 1987.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Major George Frederic Bride, 1912-[1945], comprising a copy of Bride's memoir, photograph album and Ministry of Information publications relating to his World War Two career, serving in Palestine, Sudan and Eritrea; map of Cairo and Suez area (scale 1:250,000, Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, 1933), and map of Cairo and surrounding area (scale 1: 1,000,000, Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, 1934).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in the Scope and Content.
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.
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Received by the Centre, Jan 2008.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Original memoir returned to the depositor.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
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