IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Burnaby H B
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: BURNABY, Lt Col Hugo Beaumont (1876-1916)
Date(s): Created [1876]-1916, 1927, 1931, 1966
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
Name of creator(s): Burnaby | Hugo Beaumont | 1876-1916 | Lieutenant Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1876; educated at Uppingham School; engaged in ranching in British Columbia, 1893-1899; served with 1 Bn, Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry Field Force, South Africa, 1900-1902; commissioned, 1901; left army and took up farming, [1904]; joined 15 Durham Light Infantry, 1914; commanded 11 Bn, Queen's Regt (Royal West Surrey Regt), 1915; killed in action on Western Front, 1916.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letters to his parents, 1900-1902, covering his service with 1 Bn, Wiltshire Imperial Yeomanry Field Force, South Africa, with testimonials, certificates of appointment and associated papers, 1901-1902, 1907, 1914, 1916. Correspondence with his family, 1915-1916, covering his service with 11 Bn, Queen's Regt (Royal West Surrey Regt), UK and Western Front, 1915-1916, with letters received by Burnaby's family following his death, 1916, and obituaries, 1916. Other papers relating to his life and career, 1876-1916, dated [1876-1916], 1927, 1931 and 1966, notably including History of the 11th Battalion, 'The Queen's' by Edward William James Neave (Brixton Free Press Printing and Advertising Co, London, 1931); photographs of Burnaby, [1876-1916].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
These papers form sections 1-3 of the Burnaby family collection. Section 4 consists of the papers of his [uncle], Frederick Gustavus Burnaby.
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 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 1976.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: DSO
Date(s) of descriptions: Dec 1996