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First World War Collections in the UKA preliminary horizon-scanHoldinginstitutionKing’s CollegeLondon: LiddellHart Centre forMilitary Archives(specific)King’s CollegeLondon: LiddellHart Centre forMilitary Archives(specific)King’s CollegeLondon: LiddellHart Centre forMilitary Archives(specific)King’s CollegeLondon: LiddellHart Centre forMilitary Archives(specific)King’s CollegeLondon: LiddellHart Centre forMilitary Archives(specific)King’s CollegeLondon: LiddellHart Centre forMilitary Archives(specific)Item/ collection Link to website Brief description Region Type oforganisationPapers of BrigGen Sir JamesEdward Edmonds(1861-1956)Papers ofMaj Gen JohnFrederickCharles Fuller(1878 - 1966)Private papers ofCaptain Sir BasilHenry LiddellHart (1895 - 1970)Private papersof Maj Gen SirFrederick BartonMaurice (1871-1951)Papers of LtCol Roger AlvinPoore (1870-1917)Papers of FieldMarshal SirWilliam RobertRobertson (1860-1933)www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/ed70-001.shtmlwww.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/fu20-001.shtmlwww.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/li30-001.shtmlwww.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/cats/maurice/ma90-0.shtmlwww.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/po65-001.shtmlwww.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/summary/ro45-001.shtmlPapers arranged inthe following sections:early papers and papersrelating to Staff College;correspondence; memoirs(first draft); lectures;writings by Edmonds;papers relating to WorldWar One; miscellaneouswritings by Edmondsand others; newspapercuttings; second accession(later draft of memoirsand photographs).Private papers arrangedin the following sections:tank histories and boundvolumes of documentsconcerning tank strategyand tactics, TankCorps operations andthe Battle of Cambrai,correspondenceconcerning CanalDefence Light tanks;early papers; letters tohis parents; literary andmiscellaneous; occult;later accessions.Private papers ofCaptain Sir Basil HenryLiddell Hart comprisingcorrespondence, diariesand notebooks 1910-1925and papers relating toearly life, later militarywritings and extensivereference materials.Papers of Maj Gen SirFrederick Barton Maurice(1871-1951) and MajGen Sir (John) FrederickMaurice (1841-1912).Divided into four sections:Early family papers, JohnFrederick Maurice papers,Frederick Barton Mauricepapers and the ‘Mauricecase’ papers.Papers arranged in thefollowing sections: SouthAfrica; management ofsuspense account; WorldWar One; miscellaneous;photographs; Mrs LorneMargery Poore.Papers of Field MarshalSir William RobertRobertson are arrangedchronologically and alarge number relatespecifically to his workduring the First WorldWar.London regionLondon regionLondon regionLondon regionLondon regionLondon regionUniversityarchivesUniversityarchivesUniversityarchivesUniversityarchivesUniversityarchivesUniversityarchivesSubject area Status Medium Key individuals Highlights or Detailed Description Hours of access Social Networking Online access Link to website Terms of useGovernment andpoliticsGovernment andpoliticsGovernment andpoliticsGovernment andpoliticsMilitary service(combatexperience)Military service(combatexperience)HighlysignificantHighlysignificantHighlysignificantHighlysignificantHighlysignificantHighlysignificantPrivate papersPrivate papersPrivate papersJames Edward Edmonds(1861-1956)John Frederick CharlesFuller (1878 - 1966)Basil Henry Liddell Hart(1895 - 1970)Private papers Frederick Barton Maurice(1871-1951)Private papers Roger Alvin Poore (1870-1917)Private papersWilliam Robert Robertson(1860-1933)Brig Gen Sir James Edward Edmonds entered Royal Engineers in 1881 androse to rank of Major by 1899. He then taught in the Royal Military Academyand Staff College before joining the Intelligence Division at the War Officeduring the Second Boer War. He remained at the War Office as a General StaffOfficer until the outbreak of war. He then served at General HQ of the BritishExpeditionary Force, becoming Deputy Engineer-in-Chief in 1918. After thewar he was appointed Office in charge of Military Branch, Historical Section,Committee of Imperial Defence, in which office he served until 1949. Duringthat time he published official histories of the First World War. Related papers:The papers of Gen Sir Edward Louis Spears at the Churchill Archives Centre,Cambridge University, include correspondence with Edmonds, 1924-1956 (Ref:SPRS). Cabinet Office papers held at the Public Record Office include Edmonds’correspondence files as official historian of the First World War (Ref: CAB 45).Fuller joined the Army as a 2nd Lt, Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantryin 1898. He served with the regiment in the Second Boer War. Afterwards heattended the Staff College at Camberley and then served as an adjutant to aterritorial battalion. Outline of war service: General Staff Officer Grade 3, 2Army HQ, Home Forces, 1914; General Staff Officer Grade 3, 7 Corps, France,1915; General Staff Officer Grade 2, 37 Div, 7 Corps, France, 1916; GeneralStaff Officer Grade 2, 3 Army HQ, France, 1916; General Staff Officer Grade2, Heavy Branch (later Tank Corps) HQ, France, 1916; General Staff OfficerGrade 1, 1917; planned tank attack at Cambrai, Nov-Dec 1917; Lt Col, 1918;planned tank operations for autumn offensives of 1918; devised Plan 1919 fora full-fledged mechanised-air offensive. (After the war he became the ChiefInstructor at the Staff College, Camberley in 1922 and published MilitaryAssistant to Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1926. He was the commanderof an experimental brigade at Aldershot and Senior Staff Officer, 2 Div, between1927-1930; He was awarded the rank of Maj Gen in 1930; retired pay, 1933; Hewas associated with Sir Oswald Moseley’s Union of British Fascists, 1933-1934;became military correspondent for the London Daily Mail, 1935; died in 1966.Related papers: Papers of Sir Basil Liddell Hart include correspondence withFuller, 1920-1966 (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Liddell Hart 1/302). The Centre also holdsa quantity of Macleod’s papers (Ref: GB99 KCLMA Macleod and GB99 KCLMALiddell Hart 15/14).Special Collections Department, Rutgers State University,New Brunswick, USA, has a more substantial collection of Fuller’s papersincluding correspondence, 1893-1966, drafts of published works and scrapbooksof newspapers and periodicals, cuttings, reviews and articles, 1920-[1966].Royal Armoured Corps and Royal Tank Regiment Museum holds his diary,1914-1918. The papers of Harold Montgomery Belgion at the Churchill ArchivesCentre, Cambridge University (Ref: BLGN) include correspondence with Fuller.The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Regimental Museum,Headington, holds his journal, 1917-1918. The India Office Library holds a letterto Lt Gen Sir Alexander (Stanhope) Cobbe, Secretary of Military Department,India Office, 1921, relating to the use of tanks in India (Ref: L/Mil/7/1/133).The papers of Karl Van Wieganel at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, USA, alsoinclude correspondence with Fuller.Captain Sir Liddell Hart was commissioned into the King’s Own Yorkshire LightInfantry in 1914. He served in on the Western Front at Ypres and the Somme.He was selected for the Royal Tank Corps, but invalided and retired on halfpay in 1924. He retired from the army as Capt in 1927. He was the militarycorrespondent of the Daily Telegraph between the years 1925 and 1935 and TheTimes in the years between 1935 and 1939. He was personal adviser to LeslieHore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, 1937-1938. He was also a prominentinter-war military theorist and historian.Maj Gen Sir Frederick Barton Maurice (1871-1951) gazetted to DerbyshireRegt (later the Sherwood Foresters) in 1892 and he was a Lt Col by 1913. In theopening year of the war he became a General Staff Officer Grade 2, later Grade1, 3 Div, in France, 1914-1915. Between the years 1915 and 1918 he served asthe Director of Military Operations, Imperial General Staff and was made a MajorGeneral in 1916. In May 1918 he wrote letter to the press accusing David LloydGeorge’s government of making misleading statements about the strength ofBritish Army on the Western Front. Later that month he retired from Army andbecame a military correspondent for The Daily Chronicle. In 1920 he helped tofound the British Legion, of which he was President between the years 1932and 1947. Related papers: F B Maurice: Department of Western Manuscripts,Bodleian Library, Oxford University holds his letters to Herbert Asquith, 1916-1925 (Ref: MSS Asquith). The papers of Maj Gen Sir Edward (Louis) Spears, 1stBt, at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University, include correspondence,1919-1944. The Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Scotland, holdscorrespondence with Lord Haldane, 1917-1937 (Ref: MSS 5914-6103).Lt Col Roger Alvin Poore served in South Africa during the Second Boer War(1899-1902). He was stationed in UK with 2 Bn, 1 Royal Wilts Yeomanry, 1914-1917 and joined 1 Bn, 1 Royal Wilts Yeomanry on Western Front in 1917. He thentransferred to 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers and was killed in action on the 26thof September 1917. He is buried at Poelcapelle Cemetery, Belgium (Grave ref:LV.F.11). The Centre also holds the papers of his father, Maj Robert Poore, andhis brothers, Brig Gen Robert Montagu Poore and Philip Poore.Robertson joined the 16 (The Queen’s) Lancers in 1877, serving in the ranksbefore being promoted whilst serving in India over the next decade. He becamethe first ranker officer ever to attend the Staff College, Camberley, Surrey in1897 and later joined the War Office. During the First World War he served asQuartermaster General of the BEF and then the Chief of General Staff of theBEF. He next appointment was as Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1915, aposition he held until 1918. He then became General Officer Commanding theHome Forces and supervised the process of demobilisation. He was Commanderin Chief of the British Army of the Rhine between the years 1919 and 1920, andin that year was made a Field Marshal, the only man ever to have risen from theranks to that position. 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Requeststo publish original materialshould be submitted to theTrustees of the Liddell HartCentre for Military Archives,attention of the Director ofArchive Services.Open, subject to signature ofreader’s undertaking form.Copies, subject to the conditionof the original, may be suppliedfor research use only. Requeststo publish original materialshould be submitted to theTrustees of the Liddell HartCentre for Military Archives,attention of the Director ofArchive Services.Open, subject to signature ofreader’s undertaking form anda letter of introduction. Copies,subject to the condition of theoriginal, may be supplied forresearch use only. Requests topublish original material shouldbe submitted to the Trusteesof the Liddell Hart Centre forMilitary Archives, attention of theDirector of Archive Services.Open, subject to signature ofreader’s undertaking form.Copies, subject to the conditionof the original, may be suppliedfor research use only. Requeststo publish original materialshould be submitted to theTrustees of the Liddell HartCentre for Military Archives,attention of the Director ofArchive Services.Open, subject to signature ofreader’s undertaking form.Copies, subject to the conditionof the original, may be suppliedfor research use only. Requeststo publish original materialshould be submitted to theTrustees of the Liddell HartCentre for Military Archives,attention of the Director ofArchive Services.Open, subject to signature ofreader’s undertaking form.Copies, subject to the conditionof the original, may be suppliedfor research use only. Requeststo publish original materialshould be submitted to theTrustees of the Liddell HartCentre for Military Archives,attention of the Director ofArchive Services.Page 10