IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Hargreaves
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: HARGREAVES, Maj Gen William Herbert (1908-1994)
Date(s): Created 1939, 1988
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
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CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1908; educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Lt, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1931; served in Palestine, 1936-1939; served in World War Two; Medical Liaison Officer to Surgeon General, United States Army, Washington DC, 1946-1948; Professor of Medicine, University of Baghdad, 1951-1959; Physician to King Faisal II of Iraq, 1951-1958; Honorary Consulting Physician, Iraqi Army, 1953-1958; Director of Medicine and Consulting Physician to the Army, 1960-1965; retired, 1965; died in 1994.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copies of letter to Hargreaves from Maj Gen Bernard Montgomery, thanking him for medical care he received in the British Military Hospital, Haifa in May-Jun 1939, written on 16 July 1939, with covering letter from Hargreaves to the Centre, 1988.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1 file
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 entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by Hargreaves in 1988.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997