IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Smith C
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: SMITH, Maj Gen Sir Cecil (Miller) (1896-1988)
Date(s): Created 1942-1943
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1896; educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Royal Military College Sandhurst and Staff College, Camberley; served in World War Two, 1914-1919, in France and Belgium with Army Service Corps and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1916-1918; served in World War Two, 1939-1945, in Middle East, 1939-1944 and North West Europe, 1944-1945; Maj Gen, 1943; Deputy Quarter Master General, ME/AE, 1943-1944; Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, 1944-1945; Maj Gen in charge of administration, Northern Command, 1945-1947; Chief of Staff, Northern Command, 1947-1948; Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office, 1948-1951; retired, 1951; Col Commandant, Royal Army Service Corps, 1950-1960; Chairman of the Royal Ulster Society in London, 1964-1973; died in 1988.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers dated 1942-1943 relating to the campaign in the Western Desert during World War Two comprising the history and organisation of Field Maintenance Centres, later known as Field Maintenance Areas, and message from Gen Bernard L Montgomery commending troops of 8 Army following the German defeat at El Alamein and capture of Tripoli, Jan 1943.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in chronological order.
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 provided 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:
Detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Decorations: KBE, CBE, MC
Date(s) of descriptions: Jun 1996