Collection MORGAN - MORGAN, Col Cyril (1924-1993)

Key Information

Reference code

MORGAN

Title

MORGAN, Col Cyril (1924-1993)

Date(s)

  • 1943-[1978] (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

5 boxes (0.05 cubic metres)

Scope and content

Papers of Col Cyril Morgan, 1943-[1978],comprising flying log books, 1943-1949; letters home from India, 1945-1947; correspondence and typescript reports relating to service in the Cameroons, the Belgian Congo [1962-1964] and Jamaica, 1968; typescript memoirs, with Curriculum Vitae [1978]; training manuals; printed Ordnance Survey maps of the UK [1965-1972]; printed Iranian pro-Shah propaganda material [1967].

System of arrangement

The papers are arranged in sections as outlined above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1924-1993)

Biographical history

Born 1924; joined the Army and trained at the Army Apprentice College, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service with the Glider Pilot Regt, 1943-1949; served at Arnhem, the Netherlands, Operation MARKET GARDEN, Sep 1944; service in India and Palestine, 1945-1949; commissioned into the South Wales Borderers, 1951; served in British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, Eritrea and Malaya, 1951-1957; Capt, 1952; student at Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, 1957; Headquarters, British Corps, Germany, 1957-1959; Maj, 1959; seconded to Nigerian Army, 1959; served in operations in the Cameroons [1961] and with UN Forces, Belgian Congo [1962-1964]; Staff Officer, UK [1964-1965]; Lt Col, 1965; Commanding Officer, Infantry Training Depot, UK, from 1965; commanded British Army Training Team, Jamaica, 1968; Col, 1969; Commandant, Non Commissioned Officer's Wing, School of Infantry, Warminster, Wiltshire, 1969-1972; retired 1974; died 1993.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1995.

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

Script of material

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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