Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944-1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
½ box or 0.005 cubic metres
Scope and content
Papers and photographs relating to Ebbutt's career, 1944-1946, including Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer's notebook containing manuscript accounts and technical notes on shore bombardment and targets engaged by ships lying off southernFrance, 1944-1945; Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer's diary, 1944-1945; notebook with manuscript notes by British Naval LiaisonOfficer [1944], with three photographs of a RN destroyer (Pennant number, G86). Printed booklet in French entitled 'La Première DivisionFrançaise Libre' [1945]. Citation of the award of the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star to Ebbutt, and related papers, 1945. Photograph of Ebbutt receiving the US Legion of Merit from US Col Claude M Thiele, Commanding Officer, US Army London Area Office, 1946, with related papers 1945. Copy of published booklet Soldier, sailor, compiled by Geoffrey Sanders (The Bombardment Units Association, Gloucester, 1946).
System of arrangement
1 file, 3 volumes
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1906; 2nd Lt, 1936; service with Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, 1936-1945; service with 59 (Home Counties)(Cinque Ports) Field Bde, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, 1938; served at Headquarters, 61 (North Midland) Field Regt, Royal Artillery,Territorial Army, 1939; Lt and temporary Capt, 1939; Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer, No 2 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit, attached to 4 Bde, 1 Div Free French Army and 421 Field Artillery Group, US Army, serving in southern France and Italy,1944-1945; died 1987.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1988.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
- French
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Existence and location of originals
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Note
Compiled Sep 1998
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Amphibious warfare
- Armed forces
- Awards
- Diplomacy
- Foreign relations
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Liberation movements
- Medals
- Military awards
- Military engineering
- Military liaison
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Political movements
- Social behaviour
- Social norms
- State security
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Sanders, Geoffrey, fl 1940-1946, author (Subject)
- Thie, Claude M, fl 1940-1946, US Colonel (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
- US Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.