IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Panet
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: PANET, Brig Henri de Lotbinière (1896-1985)
Date(s): Created 1915, 1919 and 1945
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1896; educated at Loyola College, Montreal and Royal Military College, Canada; served with Royal Engineers in France and Salonika, 1915-1918; Lt, 1916; Capt, 1918; worked with Indian State Railways, 1920-1934; Maj, 1930; served in Egypt and Palestine, 1935-1936, Hong Kong, 1938-1941, Iraq and Persia, 1941-1943, and with British Liberation Army, 1944-1945; Lt Col, 1938; Director of Fortifications and Works, War Office, 1947-1949; retired, 1949; died in 1985.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his military career, 1913-1945, dated 1915, 1919 and 1945, notably including his commission as 2nd Lt, Royal Engineers, 1915.
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
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1986.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The Royal Engineers Institution, Chatham, holds personal diary relating to his service in Palestine, 1936.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: CBE
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 1997