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WOODS, Lt Col George Greville (1870-1947)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Woods G G

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

Title: WOODS, Lt Col George Greville (1870-1947)

Date(s): Created 1889-1908

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 boxes or 0.03 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1870; commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery, 1889; service in India, 1889-1900, and 1904-1923; Lt, 1892; Divisional Ordnance Officer, Tirah Expeditionary Force, North West Frontier, India, 1897-1898; Capt, 1899; service in China, 1900-1904; Brevet Maj, 1903; served in Burma, 1906-1907; Maj, Royal Garrison Artillery, 1909; Deputy Director of Ordnance Stores, 3 (Lahore) Divisional Area, India, 1913-1915; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Lt Col, 1916; retired 1923; died 1947.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photograph album entitled 'Ellichpur, Berar, India, September 1893', containing 136 captioned photographs, Sep 1889-Jul 1894, including visit to Brussels and Ostend, Belgium, 1889; Mandalay and Rangoon, Burma, Dec 1889; Bombay, India, 1892; the arrival, mounting and testing of 10 inch breech loading gun, Colabra South Battery, Bombay, Mar-Sep 1892; photograph of Lt Gen Hon Sir James Charlemagne Dormer, Commander-in-Chief, Madras, India, examining large calibre gun, Beder Fort, Beder, India, Dec 1892. Photograph album containing 150 captioned photographs, Jun 1894-Mar 1908, including Simla, India, 1894; the Bhori Ghaut Railway, and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, India, 1896-1898; Burma, 1906-1907, with printed article by Woods entitled 'A motor car in the Southern Shan hills of Burmah' from Indian Motor News, Aug 1908. Photograph album containing 84 photographs on expedition in Mongolia, Apr-May 1902, with typescript report by Woods to the Deputy Quartermaster General for Intelligence, China Force, Tientsin, North China, entitled 'General report on tour to Lama Miao and back via the Wei Chang (Imperial hunting grounds)', Aug 1902; also, printed report entitled 'China Expedition - Despatches', 24 Sep 1902, by Maj Gen O'Moore Creagh, General Officer Commanding China Force, published in The Royal Engineers Journal, 1 Jan 1903. Photograph album containing 129 captioned photographs, many colour tinted, of Japan and the USA, 1904, and the UK and Switzerland, 1905. Two photograph albums containing 72 captioned photographs including Tientsin and the Yangtse river, China, 1904, and Kilkeel, Ireland, 1905.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Six albums, 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 provided forresearch use only. Requests to publish original material should besubmitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for MilitaryArchives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line athttp://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre'sreading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by the family in 1997

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1999


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Artillery | Weapons | Military equipment | Equipment
Military intelligence | Warfare | Military engineering
Photographs | Visual materials
Railway transport | Transport
Military science
Transport infrastructure

Personal names
Creagh | Sir | Michael O'Moore | 1892-1970 | Knight | Major General
Dormer | Sir | James Charlemagne | 1834-1893 | Knight | Lieutenant General

Corporate names

Places
Beder | India | South Asia
Berar | India | South Asia
Brussels | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Japan | East Asia
Kilkeel | Ireland | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Madras | India | South Asia
Mandalay | Myanmar | South East Asia
Mongolia | East Asia
Mumbai | Salsette Island | Maharashtra | India | South Asia
Ostend | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Rangoon | Myanmar | South East Asia
Simla | India | South Asia
Switzerland | Western Europe | Europe
Tianjin | China | East Asia
USA | North America
Yangtze, river | China | East Asia
Bombay x Mumbai
Tientsin x Tianjin
Americas
Caribbean