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

NIXON, Professor John Alexander (1874-1951)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Nixon

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

Title: NIXON, Professor John Alexander (1874-1951)

Date(s): Created 1934

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

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CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1874; educated at Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; House Physician and Opthalmic House Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1900-1901; House Surgeon, Metropolitan Hospital, [London], 1901-1902; House Physician and Senior Resident Officer, Bristol Royal Infirmary, 1902-1906; Consulting Physician, BEF, France, 1918, and later Consulting Physician, Bristol Royal Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Bristol; died in 1951.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Copy of letter from Nixon to Dr G C Linder concerning Nixon's post-mortem on Baron von Richthofen ('The Red Baron'), Oct 17 1934.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

single item

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/htm.top

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Decorations: CMG

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Air warfare | Warfare | Military engineering
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Linder | G C | fl 1934 | Doctor
Richtofen | Manfred | Von | 1892-1918 | Baron Von Richtofen | German fighter pilot | known as The Red Baron x Von Richtofen | Manfred

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