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

HARRISON, Frank


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Harrison F

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

Title: HARRISON, Frank

Date(s): Created [1991]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box or 0.01 cubic metre

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Joined the Royal Corps of Signals in 1939; served as wireless operator to successive brigadiers in theTobruk Tank Brigade, 3 Armoured Brigade, 2 Armoured Division; left the Army in 1946.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

'Tobruk: Siege, Breakout, Victory', typescript memoir covering operations at Tobruk, 1941-1942, written in [1991] and later published as Tobruk: the great siege reassessed (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1996)

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 Archve Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Placed in the Centre by Frank Harrison in 1991

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Desert warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Memoirs | Documents | Information sources
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Tobruk | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | North Africa
Libya x Libyan Arab Jamahiriya