IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Wood
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: WOOD, Col Philip Lawrence Eric (b 1909)
Date(s): Created 1943-1944
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 files and 1 volume
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1909; Lt, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1934; Capt, 1935; served in Palestine, [1936-1939]; commanded 3 Field Ambulance in Italy, 1943-1944; Maj, 1944; Lt Col, 1949; Col 1958.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his service in Italy, 1943-1944, principally comprising 1 Div, 3 Infantry Bde and 3 Field Ambulance operation orders concerning the landings on Pantelleria (Operation CORKSCREW), May-Jun 1943, and at Anzio (Operation SHINGLE), Jan 1944; report on the action at Campoleone, 30 Jan-4 Feb 1944, written by J G James, Commander, 3 Infantry Bde, 12 Feb 1944; 3 Infantry Bde intelligence summary for Operations ANT and APHIS; three aerial photographs of Anzio beaches, 1943, and plan of Blue Beach (North), Anzio, 1944; two parts of 'The First Division in action' covering the Anzio campaign, Jan-Jun 1944, written in Apr and Jul 1944.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English.
System of arrangement:
2 files and 1 volume.
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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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by Wood in 1977.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1996