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COLLINS, Gp Capt Arthur Edgar Gerald (1891-1979)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Collins

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

Title: COLLINS, Gp Capt Arthur Edgar Gerald (1891-1979)

Date(s): 1917-1918

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metres

Name of creator(s): Collins | Arthur Edgar Gerald | 1891-1979 | Group Captain

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1892; educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into 1 Wessex Field Company, Royal Engineers, Territorial Force, 1915; service with 3 West Riding Field Company, Royal Engineers, Territorial Force, and 461 Field Company, Royal Engineers, Western Front, 1915-1918; awarded MC, 1915; Lt, 1916; Capt, 1918; Superintending Engineer, Maintenance Command, Northern Area, 1938; service with RAF in World War Two, 1939-1945; awarded CBE, 1945; Deputy Director of Works (Civil Aviation), Air Ministry, 1945-1947; Director of Works (Civil Aviation), Air Ministry, 1947-1952; died 1979.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Thirty two British and French printed maps of France, Belgium, Germany and the UK, various scales, 1911-1918, including annotated trench maps of operations and advances during the Battles of Cambrai, 1917, Bellecourt, 1917, and Fourth Battle of Arras, 1918, with newspaper cuttings of the Western Front, 1918 and aerial photograph of Solesmes, France, annotated with position of 461 Field Company Royal Engineers, 19-20 Oct 1918, also painted unit insignia of 62 (2 West Riding) Div, Royal Engineers [1918].

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 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 1980.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CBE, MC

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1998


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Aerial photography | Photography
Maps | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Collins | Arthur Edgar Gerald | 1891-1979 | Group Captain

Corporate names

Places
Arras | France | Western Europe | Europe
Bellecourt | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Cambrai | France | Western Europe | Europe
Germany | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Solesmes | France | Western Europe | Europe