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

HEARD, Lt Col John Arthur Edward (1907-1986)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Heard

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

Title: HEARD, Lt Col John Arthur Edward (1907-1986)

Date(s): Created 1901-1903, 1939-1946

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 boxes or 0.05 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1907; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers, Dec 1941; service in Indian Army, 1943-1945; Maj, 1944; demobilised [1947]; Chairman and Managing Director, Carrier Engineering Company Limited, 1979; died 1986.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to British produced propaganda for the Indian Army, produced to counter Japanese propaganda aimed to entice Indian Army personnel to desert and fight for the Japanese led Indian National Army, India and Burma, 1943-1945, including correspondence, memoranda, personal papers and propaganda material, 1939-1946. Also, scrapbook album of watercolours, sketches, photographs, menus, invitations and autographs, created 1901-1903 by Beryl White (1877-1954) relating to her life in Sikkim, northern India.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The papers are arranged in sections as outlined above.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

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 available here and on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archivespec/index.html, and in hard copy in the reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1991.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The papers of Christopher Lawrence Sainty include a summary by Heard relating to the work of Carrier Engineering Company Limited in designing and installing filters for gas protection to British tanks during World War Two,1939-1945 (Ref: Sainty).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial forces | Armed forces | State security
Colonialism | Imperialism | Political doctrines
Liberation movements | Political movements
Nationalism | Political doctrines
Paintings | Painting | Fine arts
War | International conflicts
War propaganda | Propaganda | Persuasion | Communication process
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
Illustrations
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army
Indian Army
Indian National Army

Places
India | South Asia
Myanmar | South East Asia