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

BRIDE, Maj George Frederic (1912-1987)


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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Bride | George Frederic | 1912-1987 | Major

Corporate names

Places
Cairo | Urban | Egypt | North Africa
Eritrea | East Africa
Palestine | Middle East
Sudan | East Africa