IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Stephenson
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: STEPHENSON, Maj Frederick Simeon Dauncey (1897-1975)
Date(s): 1923-1973
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 5 boxes (0.05 cubic metres)
Name of creator(s): Stephenson | Frederick Simeon Dauncey | 1897-1975 | Major
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1897; educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Warwickshire; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), 1915; service on the Western Front, 1915-1918; service with 5 Bn and 7 Bn, The South Staffordshire Regt, Territorial Army, 1923-1950; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; served on attachment with 1 Bn, Northamptonshire Regt, 3 Corps, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, Apr-May 1940; service in UK, 1940-1943; Second in Command, 5 Bn, The South Staffordshire Regt, Prudhoe, County Durham, 1941; served in Northern Ireland, 1942; service in North West Europe, 1944-1945; Maj, France, 1945; Director of Globe Brick and Tile Company; Director, Burberry Brick Company; Director of a brass foundry in the Midlands; died 1975.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, of Maj Frederick Simeon Dauncey Stephenson, 1930-1973, and publications, 1923-1951, mostly relating to his service with 5 Bn and 7 Bn, The South Staffordshire Regt, Territorial Army, 1923-1950, including five letters received by Stephenson, Mar 1930-Sep 1973, notably one manuscript letter from Edmund Charles Blunden, 2 Mar 1930; manuscript and typescript papers relating to the proceedings of a Court of Enquiry at RAF Station Hednesford, Staffordshire, into the death of an unnamed Aircraftsman of gunshot wounds, 17 Oct 1939; manuscript, typescript and printed financial accounts, 5 Bn and 7 Bn, The South Staffordshire Regt, Sep 1939-Jan 1940; typescript Battalion orders, 5 Bn, The South Staffordshire Regt, by Lt Col Leonard Gerard Muller, Lt Col John William Hinchcliffe and by Stephenson, 4 Sep 1939-20 Jul 1943; typescript movement order for Stephenson to join 1 Bn,, Northamptonshire Regt, 3 Corps, BEF (British Expeditionary Force), France, on attachment for one month, 12 Apr 1940; manuscript account of Stephenson's 'Month's attachment to the BEF, France', 15 Apr-16 May 1940; typescript routine orders by Brig Arthur Ernest Hawkins, 177 Infantry Bde, 9 Oct 1940, with typescript instructions for 59 Div Exercise, North East England, Oct 1940; manuscript draft and typescript of 'Confidential report and history of the 5th Bn The South Staffordshire Regt, 177 Infantry Bde', Oct 1940; typescript memorandum by Stephenson entitled 'Ourselves and Russia', Feb 1942, with manuscript drafts, 1941-1942; six printed news sheets entitled Atlantic War Bulletin. Down, Northern Ireland, Jul 1942; two typescript news sheets entitled 'Punch War Bulletin. Erne and Derry', Northern Ireland, 26 and 28 Sep 1942; three typescript news sheets entitled 'HQ Company News corner', 5 Bn, The South Staffordshire Regt, Jan-Feb 1944; manuscript notebook entitled '106 Town Major. Details of duties', France, 1944. Seven editions of The Staffordshire Knot. The Regimental Annual of the South Staffordshire Regiment (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1924-1927) and (J and W Griffin, Walsall, 1928-1930); three editions of The Staffordshire Knot and The Knot. Journal of the South Staffordshire Regiment, Jul 1949-Jul 1951. Twenty three printed and typescript editions of The Fleet Street Letter, Apr-Sep 1939; sixty five editions of a magazine entitled War (Army Bureau of Current Affairs, 20 Sep 1941-28 Apr 1945); sixty six editions of a magazine entitled Current Affairs (Army Bureau of Current Affairs, 27 Sep 1941-21 Apr 1945); seven editions of The British way and purpose, prepared by the Director of Army Education, Dec 1942-Jul 1943. Also, editions of Field Service Regulations. Volume I. Organization and administration (HMSO, London, 1923); Infantry training. Volume II. War (HMSO, London, 1926); 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers. Battalion tactical doctrine 1927 (Horns and Miller, Devonport, Devon, 1927); Field Service Regulations. Volume II. Operations (HMSO, London, 1929); The lie about the war. A note on some contemporary war books by Douglas Jerrold (Faber and Faber, London, 1930); Small arms training. Volume I. General, rifle, bayonet and revolver (HMSO, London, 1931); Small arms training. Volume II. Light automatic, grenade and small arms anti-aircraft (HMSO, London, 1931); Small arms training. Volume IV. Regulations for the conduct of annual courses and range practices (HMSO, London, 1931); Infantry training. Volume I. Training (HMSO, London, 1932); A study of unit administration (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1933); Covenants with death edited by T A Innes and Ivor Castle (Daily Express Publications, London, 1934); Battle of the Marne 8th-10th September, 1914. Tour of the battlefield (HMSO, London, 1935); Battle of the Aisne 13th-15th September, 1914. Tour of the battlefield (HMSO, London, 1935); The South Staffordshie Regiment News Sheet (Home Edition),1935-1936; What are you going to do about it? The case for constructive peace by Aldous (Leonard) Huxley (Chatto and Windus, London, 1936); Spain at war. A monthly journal of facts and pictures, May 1938; Field Service Regulations. Volume I. Organization and administration HMSO, London, 1939); Military organization and administration by Maj Gen Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1939); Simplified tactical instruction by Lt Col Geoffrey Massey Gamble (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1939); 600 questions and answers on military law by Maj H M Shurlock (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1939); Foundations of soldiering. A study of Regimental soldiering in the British Army by Lt Col Mark Kingsley Wardle (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1940); War with honour by A A (Alan Alexander) Milne (Macmillan, London, 1940); How the war will be won by Capt Bernard Acworth RN (Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1940); The history of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) 1794-1939 (McLagan and Cumming, Edinburgh [1940]); The defence of Calais by Eric Robert Russell Linklater (HMSO, London, 1941); The Battle of Flanders 1940 by Ian Hay (HMSO, London, 1941); Black record. Germans past and present by Rt Hon Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1941); Lies as Allies. An indictment of Hitler by Frederic Herbert Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham of Hartfield (Oxford University Press, London, 1941); Open letter of an optimist by Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (Macmillan, London, 1941); How Moscow was won in 1917. A chapter in the history of the revolution by Ilse Mintz (Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1941); Fighters ever byPeter Dunsmore Howard (Heinemann, London, 1941); Defence. The Services' Magazine, 1 Oct 1941; Roots of the trouble by Rt Hon Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart of Denham (Hutchinson, London, [1941]); The fall of France seen through Soviet eyes by Ilya Ehrenburg (Modern Books, London, [1941]); The Highland Division by Eric Robert Russell Linklater (HMSO, London, 1942); Front line 1940-1941. The official story of the Civil Defence of Britain (HMSO, London, 1942); Games and sports in the Army 1942-1943 (The Army Sport Control Board, War Office, London, 1942); That second front. A survey of the strategic and political factors by Cdr Edgar Philip Young RN (W H Allen, London, 1942); The gangsters around Hitler by Dr Otto Strasser (W H Allen, London, [1942]); Churchill by Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (Hodder and Stoughton, London, [1942]); Combined Operations 1940-1942 (HMSO, London, 1943); East of Malta, West of Suez. The Admiralty account of the Naval war in the Eastern Mediterranean, September 1939 to March 1941 (HMSO, London, 1943); 'Army Training Memorandum No. 46', General Staff restricted publication, 1943; Shell-fire corner carries on. A graphic description of the war's events at England's gateway by Raymond Arthur Cook (Headley Brothers, London, 1943); The Eighth Army, September 1941 to January 1943 (HMSO, London, 1944); Target: Germany. The US Army Air Forces' official story of the VIII Bomber Command's first year over Europe (HMSO, London, 1944); Soviet documents on Nazi atrocities (Hutchinson, London, [1944]); By air to battle. The official account of the British Airborne Divisions (HMSO, London, 1945); His Majesty's Submarines (HMSO, London, 1945); RAF Middle East. The official story of air operations in the Middle East, from February 1942 to January 1943 (HMSO, London, 1945); Your men in battle. The story of the South Staffordshire Regiment 1939-1945 (Express and Star, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, 1945); 30 Corps in Germany [1945]; A servant when he reigneth by Norman Tiptaft (Norman Tiptaft Limited, Birmingham, Warwickshire, 1948).
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The collection is arranged in sections as outlined above.
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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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1981.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Nov 1999