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

WRIGHT, Col Leslie William (b 1920)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Wright L W

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

Title: WRIGHT, Col Leslie William (b 1920)

Date(s): Created 1916, 1940-1971, [1975], 1986

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 files

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1920; served in World War Two with BEF, France and Central Mediterranean Forces, Italy; responsible for signals operation in Southern Italy, 1945; joined staff of Sheffield College of Technology (later merged with Sheffield City Polytechnic), 1949, later becoming Senior Lecturer in History; retired, 1980.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to the defence of Calais, May 1940, dated 1940-1971, notably including copy letter from Wright to Kathleen Howard (later Mrs L W Wright), 28 May 1940, detailing the events of his escape from Calais; typescript extracts of messages from the log kept by Control Wireless Station of No 12 Wireless Section at Vice Admiralty, Dover, 1940, copied in [1960-1970]; 'Personal experience in the defence of Calais', manuscript text compiled by Wright in 1946 from a report written for the War Office in 1940; press cuttings and copies of press cuttings, 1940-1962; correspondence relating to the rescue of a group of soldiers (including Wright) from Calais harbour by HMS GULZAR, May 1940, dated 1940 and 1968; 'Calais 1940 remembered', article by Lt J A Evitts reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Signals Institution vol 10 no 3, 1971. Other papers relating to Wright and his family, 1916, [1975], 1986, notably including newspaper cutting concerning the rescue from under enemy fire of Wright's father, 2nd Lt Leonard Wright, by Pte William Hall, 1916.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English.

System of arrangement:

2 files.

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:

Presented to the Centre by Wright in 1990, 1994 and 2001.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: TD

Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Evitts | J A | fl 1970 | Lieutenant
Hall | William | fl 1916 | Private
Wright | Leonard | fl 1916 | Second Lieutenant

Corporate names
British Army
HMS Gulzar

Places
Calais | France | Western Europe | Europe