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

MACDONALD-BUCHANAN, Maj Sir Reginald Narcissus (1898-1981)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Macdonald-Buchanan

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

Title: MACDONALD-BUCHANAN, Maj Sir Reginald Narcissus (1898-1981)

Date(s): Created 1940-[1943]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1898; attended Royal Military College, Sandhurst; Lt, Scots Guards, 1916; retired from Army, 1926; Chairman, James Buchanan and Co Ltd and W. P. Lowrie and Co Ltd, 1939-1970; Director, Buchanan-Dewar Ltd, 1939-1969, and Distillers Co Ltd, 1930-1969; rejoined Scots Guards, 1939; ADC to FM Sir John Greer Dill, 1940-1943; served with BEF, France, 1940; served in WarOffice, 1940-1941, with British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, 1941-1943, and in France and Belgium, 1944-1945; died in 1981.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to his service as ADC to FM Sir John Greer Dill, 1940-[1943], including 1 Army Corps routine orders by Dill, 1940; notes, maps and papers concerning 1 Army Corps manning exercise, Apr 1940; notebook giving details of plan for moving 1 Army Corps HQ from Quincey to Grammont, France, 1940; notes and drafts of letters written as ADC to Dill, 1940-1943;German propaganda leaflets, [1940].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mainly English, some French

System of arrangement:

8 files, 2 envelopes

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 the family in 1981.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Military exercises | Higher science education
War | International conflicts
War propaganda | Propaganda | Persuasion | Communication process
World War Two (1939-1945) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Dill | Sir | John Greer | 1881-1944 | Knight | Field Marshal

Corporate names
British Army
German Army

Places
Grammont | France | Western Europe | Europe
Quincey | France | Western Europe | Europe