IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Smith
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: SMITH, Capt Ralph C
Date(s): Created 1915-1917
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 files
Name of creator(s):
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Served with Northumbrian (County of Durham) (Howitzer) Bde, France and Belgium, 1915-1917.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Copy of typescript diary of his service on the Western Front, 1915-1917, notably in the second Battle of Ypres, Apr 1915, the Battle of the Somme, Aug-Sep 1916, and the Battle of Arras, Apr 1917.
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 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:
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Copies made by the Centre in 1981 from originals loaned by the family.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 1997