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

STENT, Lt Col John Arthur Goodfellow


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Stent

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

Title: STENT, Lt Col John Arthur Goodfellow

Date(s): 1943, 1961 and 1991

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file or 0.01m3

Name of creator(s): Stent | John Arthur Goodfellow | 1914-2003 | Lieutenant Colonel

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1914; read Engineering at Cambridge University; emergency commission as 2 Lieutenant, African Colonial Forces, 1941; Lieutenant, Royal Corps of Signals, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, 1952; transferred to Royal Engineers; retired as Lieutenant Colonel, 1956; worked as chemical engineer, petroleum industry; died 2003.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Lt Col John Stent, 1943, 1961 and 1991, comprising Tanganyika (Tanzania) driving licence, 1943; discharge letter from War Office, 1961; typescript letter containing vivid reminiscences of his service with the Royal Corps of Signals in Africa, [1990].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged as in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. In order to view archive material you will need to sign a reader's undertaking form and provide two forms of identification.

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 Archives and Information Management.

Finding aids:

No additional finding aids exist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family, June 2004.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Katharine Higgon.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD (G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: October 2007


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial countries | Political systems
Colonial forces | Armed forces | State security
Military organizations

Personal names
Stent | John Arthur Goodfellow | 1914-2003 | Lieutenant Colonel

Corporate names
Royal Corps of Signals
War Office

Places
Tanzania UR | East Africa
Africa