IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Wintour
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: WINTOUR, Maj Gen Fitzgerald (1860-1949)
Date(s): Created 1898-1918
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1860; entered Army, 1880; served in Egypt, 1882; Sudan, 1884-1885 and 1885-1886; Capt, Royal West Kent Regt, 1887; served on North West Frontier, India, 1897; served in Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1901; Maj, 1900; Lt Col, Norfolk Regt, 1904; Col, 1908; commanded brigade in France, World War One, 1914-1915; Deputy Assistant and Quarter Master General, Headquarters, 2 Army, 1915; retired, 1918; died in 1949.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopies of memoir covering military service, 1860-1918; published account of Tochi Valley expedition, Afghanistan, 1897-1898; complaint relating to conditions in trenches, Western Front, World War One, 1915.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
Arranged in sections as in scope and content.
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
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1990.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: CB, CBE
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996