Collection RIDDELL - RIDDELL, Maj Gen Ralph Anthony (1900-1979)

Key Information

Reference code

RIDDELL

Title

RIDDELL, Maj Gen Ralph Anthony (1900-1979)

Date(s)

  • [1965] (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 file

Scope and content

Copy of typescript text on the use of nuclear weapons and significance of nuclear power, [1940-1965], written in [1965].

System of arrangement

single item

General Information

Name of creator

(1900-1979)

Biographical history

Born in 1900; commissioned into Royal West Kent Regt, 1919; Lt, 1921; Adjutant, 1935-1927; Capt, 1930; Staff Capt, 1932-1934; General Staff Officer for Weapons Training, Eastern Command, 1934-1936; served in Palestine, [1936-1939]; Maj, 1938; Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General, 1938-1939; Brig, 1947; ADC to King George VI, 1949; retired, 1955; died in 1979.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1980.

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

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related descriptions

Note

Decorations: CBE

Alternative identifier(s)

Place access points

People and Organisations

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

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

Script(s)

Accession area