Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1943-1944 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 files and 1 volume
Scope and content
Papers relating to his service in Italy, 1943-1944, principally comprising 1 Div, 3 Infantry Bde and 3 Field Ambulance operation orders concerning the landings on Pantelleria (Operation CORKSCREW), May-Jun 1943, and at Anzio (Operation SHINGLE), Jan 1944; report on the action at Campoleone, 30 Jan-4 Feb 1944, written by J G James, Commander, 3 Infantry Bde, 12 Feb 1944; 3 Infantry Bde intelligence summary for Operations ANT and APHIS; three aerial photographs of Anzio beaches, 1943, and plan of Blue Beach (North), Anzio, 1944; two parts of 'The First Division in action' covering the Anzio campaign, Jan-Jun 1944, written in Apr and Jul 1944.
System of arrangement
2 files and 1 volume.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1909; Lt, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1934; Capt, 1935; served in Palestine, [1936-1939]; commanded 3 Field Ambulance in Italy, 1943-1944; Maj, 1944; Lt Col, 1949; Col 1958; died in 1994.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by Wood in 1977.
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. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.
Note
Compiled Oct 1996
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Amphibious warfare
- Armed forces
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Medical sciences
- Military engineering
- Military medicine
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Ant (1944)
- Operation Aphis (1944)
- Operation Corkscrew (1943)
- Operation Shingle (1944)
- Organizations
- Photographs
- State security
- Surgery
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- James, John Gwynne, fl 1944, Brigadier (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.