MOLLAN, Maj Gen Francis Robert Henry (1893-1982)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Mollan
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: MOLLAN, Maj Gen Francis Robert Henry (1893-1982)
Date(s)	: 1923 (covers 1916-1918)
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 1 file (11pp)
Name of creator(s)	: Mollan | Francis Robert Henry | 1893-1982 | Major General

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born 1893; educated at Corrig School and the at Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; commissioned Royal Army Medical Corps, 1915; Medical Officer, 2nd Bn, Sherwood Foresters, France and Belgium, 1916-1918; MC, 1918; acting Maj 1918; Capt 1919; Maj 1927; served North West Frontier of India (Mohmand), 1933; acting Lt Col 1940; served with 8th Army in North Africa, 1941-43; Lt Col 1941; Col 1946; Brig 1947; temp Maj Gen 1948; CB 1950; Maj Gen 1951; retired 1953, died 1982.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript copy of letter from Francis Robert Henry Mollan to Lt Col G M Gamble, written from India, 1923, giving account of his service as Medical Officer with the 2nd Bn Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) Regt, Western Front, particularly in the Somme and Loos areas, Sep 1916 - Jul 1918; including comments on the work of a Regimental medical officer, the construction of Regimental Aid Posts and the treatment of shock.

Access & 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.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 2001.

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Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources Who Was Who, Army Lists. Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM 25 Project.

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:
Aug 2001