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

HOBDAY, Brig Rupert Edmund (1894-1977)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Hobday

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

Title: HOBDAY, Brig Rupert Edmund (1894-1977)

Date(s): Created 1940-1941

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1894; served in France and Belgium, 1915-1917; 2nd Lt, West Yorkshire Regt, 1915; Lt, 1917; served in Italy, 1917-1918; served in Kurdistan, 1923; Capt, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1924; General Staff Officer for Weapon Training, Aldershot Command, 1930-1933; Brig Maj, Aldershot Command, 1933-1934; Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Egypt, 1935-1936; DeputyAdjutant and Quartermaster General, Palestine and Transjordan, 1936; served in Palestine, 1936-1939; Maj, Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1937; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 1937-1940, and Grade 1, 1940; Lt Col, 1940; served in Egypt and Libya, 1940-1941, and later East Africa; honorary Brig, 1948; died in 1977.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service in Egypt and Libya, 1940-1941, principally comprising notes for a lecture on the Libyan campaign, 1940-1941, with particular reference to the Battle of Sidi Barrani, Dec 1940, ND; circulars issued by Advanced Western Desert Force General Staff, namely operation orders concerning the advance to Sidi Barrani, 6 Dec 1940, intelligence summary for 9-12Dec 1940, dated 14 Dec 1940, and administrative instructions, Feb 1941.

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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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1983.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Desert warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
Military intelligence | Warfare | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations
Military science

Personal names

Corporate names
British Army

Places
Sidi Barrani | Egypt | North Africa
Libya x Libyan Arab Jamahiriya