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South Asia Research Guide www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archives SOUTH ASIA Research Guide South Asia Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives SOUTH ASIA South Asia This guide offers brief descriptions of material held in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and King’s College London Archives relating to South Asia. It includes collections relating to Afghanistan, Burma, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet. Further biographical information about each of the individuals named and complete summary descriptions of the papers held here may be consulted on the Archives’ website (see contact details on the back page), where information about the location of the Archives, opening hours and how to gain access may also be found. New collections are being added all the time, so please visit the website regularly. Contemporary place names have been used throughout. Examples include: Name used in text Modern name Name used in text Modern name Arakan Rakhine State, Myanmar Madras Chennai, Tamil Nadu Assam Nagaland, India Mesopotamia Iraq Baluchistan Balochistan Mysore Karnataka Bombay Mumbai North Western Uttar Pradesh Provinces Burma Myanmar Nushki Nushki, Pakistan Cawnpore Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Oudh Awadh, Uttar Pradesh Ceylon Sri Lanka Peshawar, India Peshawar, Pakistan Chaman, India Chaman, Pakistan Quetta, India Quetta, Pakistan Chittagong, India Chittagong, Bangladesh Rajputana Rajasthan Dacca Dhaka, Bangladesh Rangoon, Burma Yangon, Myanmar Duzdap, Persia Zahidan, Iran Trimulgherry Tirumalagiri, Andhra Pradesh Imphal Manipur, India United Provinces Uttar Pradesh Irrawaddy, Burma Ayeuarwady, Myanmar Waziristan, India Waziristan, Pakistan Kohima Nagaland, India Yakh Dand, India Yakh Dand, Pakistan Little Tibet Ladakh, India www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archives Individual collections held Camberley, Surrey, entitled, 'The Role of the British Army', including the optimum strength in the Liddell Hart Centre of overseas garrisons in India, 936 for Military Archives ALISON, Gen Sir Archibald (86-907) Military Secretary to Lt Gen Sir Colin Campbell, Commander-in-Chief, Indian Mutiny expedition, ABRAHAM, Maj Gen Sir William (Ernest Victor) 1857; temporary Adjutant General, 1885 (897-980) Detailed sketch map of Lucknow Garrison, Served in World War Two including India, Oudh, India, 85; memoranda to Alison from 1943-1945 as Staff Officer in GHQ, Delhi and then Lt Gen Sir Colin Campbell, September-October Controller General of Economy, India, 1945, with 857, concerning troop movements and brief tour of Burma, 1945 communications for the second relief of the siege Papers relating to service in India and Burma, of Lucknow, November, 857. Account, with sketch 943-945, including typescript 'Summary of maps, of march on Kabul, Afghanistan, 880, the economic developments in the Far East by Maj Montagu Gilbert Gerard, Brigade Major, during the six months ending 30th June, 944'; Central Indian Horse. Memoranda by Alison, 41 captioned official photographs, Burma 885, on Government of India proposals for a campaign, 944, notably of the redeployment permanent increase in British troops in India by air of 5 Indian Division from the Arakan to Imphal, Indian Army troops and units of 7 Indian ALLENBY, FM Edmund (Henry Hynman), 1st Division, Arakan, 944; typescript notes, 'Points Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and of Felixstowe on AFV (armoured fighting vehicles) situation (86-936) in India' [944]; printed volume, 'The India base', Commander-in-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary issued by General Headquarters, India, 945; Force, Palestine and Egypt, 1917-1919; High reports, printed articles, plans, statistics and Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1919-1925 correspondence relating to the oil industry, Photographs of visits to India and Ceylon, including in Burma, 93-96; Regimental Standing 930-93; photographs and postcards relating Orders of the Upper Burma Battalion, Auxiliary to a visit to Burma, 93 Force, (India) by Abraham (Mandalay Press, Mandalay, Burma, 935); typescript manuscript, AMLOT, Air Cdre Douglas Lloyd (90-979) 'Time off for war. Recollections of a wartime Staff Officer' [1977], with a copy of a typescript letter Commanded 1 Group, Royal Pakistan Air Force, from the Rt Hon Louis (Francis Albert Victor responsible for supply dropping operations in Nicholas) Mountbatten, st Earl Mountbatten Kashmir, 1947-1948; temporary Chief of Staff, of Burma, relating to the memoir, 977; papers Royal Pakistan Air Force, 1949 relating to the Burma Star Association, 964-979, Press cuttings relating to the Royal Pakistan including letters from Mountbatten, 968-979, Air Force, 948-950, including Pakistan's and from Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre procurement of Dakota aircraft, 949; Amlot's Auchinleck, 964-965. Also typescript history inauguration of the first University Air Squadron of the Association [978] at Dacca, East Pakistan, 949; articles by Amlot relating to Royal Pakistan Air Force ADAM, Gen Sir Ronald, 2nd Bt (885-98) training, strategy, and force strengths, Adjutant General to the Forces, 1941-1946 August-September 950 Reports by Adam on his tours as Adjutant General, 94-946, including suggested improvements to the medical service in India. Lecture notes by Adam for the Staff College, 3 ANDERTON, Col Geoffrey (90-98) BISHOP, Maj Gen Sir (William Henry) Alexander Service in Royal Army Medical Corps (897-984) on North West Frontier, 1930-1931 Joined 2 Dorset Regiment; served in India, SOUTH ASIA Captioned photographs of operations in 1919-1925; British Deputy High Commissioner Waziristan by Durham Light Infantry and 0 in Calcutta, 1957-1962 Medium Battery, Royal Artillery, 930 'Look back with pleasure', memoirs covering his life and career, 897-965 BALDWIN, Gp Capt Philip Harold (97-003) Served with 177 Squadron, Burma, BOMFORD, Col Guy (899-996) World War Two Director of Survey in South East Asia Command Official report, ‘Low level Beaufighters over (SEAC), 1945 to 1946 Burma’, with photographs and map, 943 Account of the Survey Service of the Eastern and 4 Army in India and Burma, 94-945, BARTHOLOMEW, Gen Sir William Henry written in 945 (877-96) Chief of General Staff, India, 1934-1937 BOYD, Maj Gen Ian Herbert Fitzgerald (907-978) Correspondence between Bartholomew and FM Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode Served in India, 1930-1934; notably Mohmand, and others, 933-937, on topics including: North West Frontier Province, 1933; Engineer appointment of Bartholomew as Chief of Staff Officer and Field Engineer, Rawalpindi, General Staff and of Chetwode as Commander- 1936-1940; Staff Officer Royal Engineers Grade 3, in-Chief, India; impressions of Victor Alex John Delhi, 1939-1940 Hope, nd Marquess of Linlithgow and Viceroy Photographs of landscape, towns and of India; the proposed Indianisation of the army local Pathans, North West Frontier Province, in India; British army strength in India; RAF 930-936; diary, 939-940, with narrative of operations, North West Frontier Province service as Engineer Staff Officer and Field Engineer, Rawalpindi and Staff Officer Royal BERGER, Col Oliver Charles (93-998) Engineers Grade 3, Delhi Military Attaché, British Embassy, Rangoon, Burma, 1954-1957 BOYLE, Lt Col Charles Leofric Boyle (899-999) Reports, correspondence, guest lists and notes Served with Royal Artillery, India, 1947, and relating to Berger's service in Burma, 954-957, Commander of troops on board HMT EMPIRE and on visits to London by senior Burmese PRIDE, 1947 military personnel, 956 Telegrams and reports on tensions between Hindu and Muslim troops on HM Troopship BIRD, Lt Col Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce EMPIRE PRIDE, October 947 (908-97) Staff Officer, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers BRADBURY, Lt Col George Charles (906-995) Europe (SHAPE), 1954 Joined Indian Army, 1931; served in 10 Baluch Papers include a copy letter by Gen James Regiment, 1938-1947 Lewis Bird (grandfather), June 857, describing Correspondence, 983-99, relating to the the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut, history of 0 Baluch Regiment, Indian Army India, May-June 957 4 www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/archives BROOKE, FM Alan Francis, 1st Viscount 94, and the decision to abort; visits including Alanbrooke of Brookeborough (883-963) to Burma, June and September 94; defence, Lieutenant, 30 Royal Field Artillery, Meerut, morale, military preparation, inspections, 1906-1909; Lieutenant, Royal Horse Artillery, shortages of manpower, military transport and Ambala, 1909-1914. Chief of the Imperial equipment, and impressions of politicians and General Staff, 1941-1946 military commanders; problems relating to the transportation of materials on the Burma Maps of India, including Ladak, part of Hazara Road; a visit of the Chinese Military Mission and Kashmir, Little Tibet, Periyakulam and with assurances of aid in the defence of Burma Cochin, 899-906. Letters home from India, against a Japanese attack through Thailand 906-94, including accounts of small-game hunting expeditions and pig sticking competitions, BROWN, Col Francis David Millett (837-895) press cuttings, photographs, sketches, maps, and programmes of events for the Maharajah of Born Bhagalpur; Cadet, Bengal Infantry, 1855; Gwalior’s Christmas house parties. Photographs 2nd Lieutenant, 1 European Bengal Fusiliers, of Indian Army officers, 1911. Scrapbook of 1856; awarded VC for bravery during the Indian notes, correspondence and printed rules and Mutiny, 1857; Indian Staff Corps, 1865; Assistant regulations relating to game hunting in various Principal of Thomason College, Roorkee, regions of India, 90-93. Letters to Brooke from 1868-1873 Abdul Matin, Tahsildar of Kalya Khera,
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