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BURCH, Maj Gen Frederick Whitmore ('Eric') (1893-1977)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Burch

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

Title: BURCH, Maj Gen Frederick Whitmore ('Eric') (1893-1977)

Date(s): Created 1914-1939, 1899-1902

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Burch | Frederick Whitmore ('Eric') | 1893-1977 | Major General

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1893; educated at Framlingham College; mobilised with York Troop, East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, 1914; commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment, 1914; served World War One, 1914- 1918 on Western Front, Egypt and India; service with 12 (Service) Bn (3 Hull), East Yorkshire Regiment, 1914-1917; Lt, 1916; awarded MC, 1916; transferred to Indian Army, 1917; served with 7 Gurkha Rifles and 18 Royal Garwhal Rifles, 1917-1943; acting Capt, 1918; Third Afghan War, 1919; Capt, 1919; Brevet Maj, 1930; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, General Staff, India, 1936; Brevet Lt Col, 1938; Assistant Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, India, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Brig, 1941; Maj Gen, 1942; Director of Staff Duties, General Staff, India, 1942-1943; Head of Indian Army Liaison Mission to the Middle East, 1944-1945; awarded CIE, 1944; organiser of India's Victory Celebrations, New Delhi, 1946; Chief of Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Baroda State Forces, India, 1946; awarded CSI, 1946; retired 1949; Area Controller, Civil Defence, North East Essex, 1950-1964; raised and commanded North East Sector, Essex Home Guard (5 Bns), 1951; Chairman, Lexden and Winstree Rural District Council, 1959-1963; died 1977.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copies of papers, 1914-1939, including account of service with York Troop, East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry, 1914, and 12 (Service) Bn (3 Hull), East Yorkshire Regiment, UK and Suez Canal, Egypt, 1914- 1916; narrative diary of voyage to India, 1939; diaries of Burch's father, Maj Frederick Burch, 1 Royal Dragoons, containing brief descriptive entries relating to service in the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899-1902; letter from and notification of the death of Burch's brother, Lt Sydney Gaskin Burch, South Nottinghamshire Hussars, Territorial Force, attached to 16 (Service) Bn (Chatsworth Rifles), Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) Regt, 117 Bde, 39 Div, killed in action in attack on St Pierre Divion, Battle of the Somme, 1916.

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-lien at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and 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 the family in 1982.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CSI, CIE, MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 1998


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Canals | Transport infrastructure
Second Boer War, 1899-1902 | Wars (events)
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Waterways

Personal names
Burch | Frederick Whitmore | 1893-1977 | Major General x Burch | Eric
Burch | Frederick | fl 1899-1902 | Major | father of Major General Frederick Whitmore Burch
Burch | Sydney Gaskin | fl 1916 | Lieutenant | brother of Major General Frederick Whitmore Burch

Corporate names
British Army

Places
India | South Asia
Somme | France | Western Europe | Europe
South Africa | Southern Africa
Suez | Urban | Egypt | North Africa