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

WILSON, Maj Walter Gordon (1874-1957)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Wilson W G

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

Title: WILSON, Maj Walter Gordon (1874-1957)

Date(s): Created 1920

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1874; educated HMS BRITANNIA and King's College Cambridge; member of Institution of Civil Engineers; worked as designer of motor cars; joined Royal Naval Air Service [1914]; served as Lt in Armoured Car Div, RN, 1914; worked for Landships Committee on design of armoured fighting vehicles; Chief of Design, Mechanical Warfare Department, War Office, 1916-1918; with Sir William Tritton worked with Lt Col Sir Albert Gerald Stern on the design of first tank, 1915-1916; temporary Maj Tank Corps, 1916; awarded CMG, 1918; member of Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply [1939-1942]; died 1957.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of pages from Sir Albert Stern's Tanks, 1914-1918: the log book of a pioneer (1919), with annotations by Wilson, 1920.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

1 file.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

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

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased by the Centre in 1977.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Clwyd Record Office (Buddicom papers)

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Centre holds the papers of Lt Col Sir Albert Gerald Stern (GB99 KCLMA Stern). Wilson's obituary is held in the Liddell Hart papers at 9/28/59.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armoured forces | Armed forces | State security
Armoured warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Government departments | Central government | Public administration | Government
Tanks | Motor vehicles | Vehicles | Transport
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Mechanical engineering
Military organizations

Personal names
Stern | Sir | Albert Gerald | 1878-1966 | Knight | Lieutenant Colonel and tank pioneer

Corporate names
British Army
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy
Royal Naval Air Service
War Office

Places