IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MISC 8
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: Misc: The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha
Date(s): 1981 (refers to 1939-1940)
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 1 file (0.01 cubic metres)
Name of creator(s): Trythall | Anthony John | b.1927 | Major General
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1927; educated Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby; St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA Hons Modern History, 1947, Dip Ed 1951); Institute of Education, London Univ. (Academic Dip Ed 1962); King's College, London (MA in War Studies, 1969); National Service as RAEC Officer, UK, Egypt and Akaba, 1947-1949; teaching, 1951-1953; Regular RAEC Officer, 1953; seconded to Malay Regt, 1953-1956; War Office, 1957-1962; British Army of the Rhine, 1962-1966; Inspector, 1967-1968; Education Adviser, Regular Commissions Board, 1969-1971; Head of Officer Education Bridge, 1971-1973; Chief Inspector of Army Education, 1973-1974; MoD, 1974-1976; Chief Education Officer, UKLF, 1976-1980; Col Commandant, RAEC, 1986-1989; Member: Council, Royal United Services Institution for Defence Studies, 1978-1984; Director of Army Education, 1980-84; Chairman, Gallipoli Memorial Lecture Trust, 1986-1989 (Trustee, 1984-); Director: Brassey's (UK) Ltd (formerly Brassey's Defence Publishers Ltd), since 1984 (Managing Director, 1984-1987; Executive Deputy Chairman, 1988-1995); Brassey's (US) Inc., 1984-1995. Pubications Boney Fuller: the intellectual general 1977; contributed to The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha in the Second World War 1982; Fuller and the Tanks in Home Fires and Foreign Fields 1985.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Photocopy of article 'The Downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha' by Major General Anthony John Trythall, published in the Journal of Contemporary British History Vol 16 (1981), pp.391-411, on the dismissal of (Isaac) Leslie Hore-Belisha (later Baron Hore-Belisha) as Secretary of State for War, Jan 1940
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
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.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Given by John Lee 2000
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Publication note:
Published in Journal of Contemporary British History Vol 16 (1981), pp.391-411
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Source: Who's Who.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001