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

ELLENBERGER, Brig George Fothergill (1895-[1974])


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Liddell Hart 15/9

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

Title: ELLENBERGER, Brig George Fothergill (1895-[1974])

Date(s): 1916-1932

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 2 boxes or 0.02m3

Name of creator(s): Ellenberger | George Fothergill | 1895-[1974] | Brigadier

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1895; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; commissioned into the 11 (Reserve) Bn, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Jan 1915; joined 9 (Service) Bn, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 64 Infantry Bde, 21 Div, Western Front, Dec 1915; served in France and Flanders, World War One, 1915-1918; wounded Battle of the Somme, 1916; awarded MC, 1916; Lt, 1917; served at Third Battle of Ypres,1917; wounded at Second Battle of Aisne, 1918; awarded Bar to MC, 1918; Capt, 1924; graduated Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1929; General Staff Officer 3, War Office, 1930-1934; Maj, 1936; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Northern Command, 1936- 1938; General Staff Officer 2, West Riding Div, 1938-1940; served in UK, Norway and India, World War Two, 1939-1945; served in the North-Western Expeditionary Force, Norway, 1940; Lt Col, 1940; acting Brig, 1941; Brigadier General Staff, Central Command, India, 1943-1947; substantive Col, 1944; Deputy Chief of Staff, Allied Commission, Austria, 1947-1948; retired from Army as Honorary Brig, 1948; worked in the Historical Section, Cabinet Office, 1948-1952; appointed Justice of the Peace for Surrey, 1951; County Commandant, Surrey Army Cadet Force, 1952-1956; Honorary County Secretary of the Hampshire Soldiers', Sailors', and Airman's Families Association, 1958-1970; died in [1974].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Brig George Fothergill Ellenberger, 1916-1932, including operational orders for 64 Infantry Bde, 21 Div, Western Front, May 1916-Nov 1917, including assault on Flers-Courcelette, Battle of the Somme, Sep 1916, Battle of Arras, Apr 1917, and Third Battle of Ypres, Oct 1917; facsimile of report by Ellenberger and Maj William Wyndham Torrs Torr, West Yorkshire Regiment, on a reconnaissance of eastern Belgium and Luxembourg, 1930; two facsimiles of reports by Ellenberger on military liaison tours to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria, 1930-1931; facsimile of report by Ellenberger on the political situation in Austria and Hungary, 1931; facsimile of report by Ellenberger on the growth of National Socialism in Austria, 1932.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The collection forms section 15/9 of the papers of Capt Sir Basil Liddell Hart.

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 submiitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue available on line (see Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, section 15/9), and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

The collection forms section 15/9 of the papers of Capt Sir Basil Liddell Hart which were purchased by the Centre in 1973.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1977


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Battle of Arras (1917) | World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Battle of the Somme (1916) | World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Dictatorship | Political systems
Fascism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
Nazism | Totalitarianism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Ellenberger | George Fothergill | 1895- ? 1974 | Brigadier
Torr | William Wyndham Torrs | fl 1930 | Major

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Arras | France | Western Europe | Europe
Austria | Western Europe | Europe
Czechoslovakia | Eastern Europe
Hungary | Eastern Europe
Luxembourg | Western Europe | Europe
Somme | France | Western Europe | Europe
Ypres | Belgium | Western Europe | Europe