IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Lathbury J F F
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: LATHBURY, Lt Col John Frank Fyson (1911-1985)
Date(s): Created 1919, 1931, 1945-1950
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1911; 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1931, Lt, 1934; employed under Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1936; Capt, 1939; served in South East Asia in World War Two; died in 1985.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his life and military career, 1919, 1931, 1945-1950, particularly his service in South East Asia in World War Two, notably including 'Order of the day' by Lt Gen Sir Montagu George North Stopford, Commander of 33 Indian Corps, relating to the Battle of Mandalay, Burma, Jan-Mar 1945, dated 21 Mar 1945.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English; some Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese
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 1986
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997