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

VLIELAND, Charles Archibald (1890-1974)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Vlieland

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

Title: VLIELAND, Charles Archibald (1890-1974)

Date(s): Created 1911, 1938, [1960-1965], 1967

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume and 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1890; educated at Exeter School and Balliol College, Oxford; held various appointments in the Malayan Civil Service, 1915-1926; appointed as District Officer, Batang Padang, 1927, and Kuala Selangor, 1929; Superintendent of Census, Malaya, 1930-1932; Economy Officer, Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements, Under Secretary, Straits Settlements and Financial Commissioner and Auditor General, Johore; Secretary for Defence, Malaya, 1938-1941; died in 1974.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his life and career, 1911-1942, dated 1911, 1938, [1960-1965], 1967, principally comprising bound typescript entitled 'Disaster in the Far East, 1941-1942', an account of his work as Secretary for Defence, Malaya, 1938-1941, and his assessment of the events leading up to the fall of Singapore, 1942, written in [1960-1965], including a copy of his unofficial report on the defence of Malaya, 1940, and a census map of Malaya, 1931, with covering letter to the Centre and cutting of his article on 'Singapore: the legend and the facts' from the The Daily Telegraph, 1967.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

1 volume and 1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archivespec/index.html, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Memoir and associated items presented to the Centre by Vlieland in 1965. Other papers presented to the Centre by Peter Elphick in 1994.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Defence | State security
Maps | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Malaysia | South East Asia
Singapore | South East Asia