Metadata: Stockwell, Gen Sir Hugh Charles (1903-1986)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
- Postal address:
- Strand Building,Strand Campus,StrandLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC2R 2LS
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7848 2015
- Web address:
- https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archives
- Email:
- Email: archives@kcl.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- Stockwell
- Title:
- Stockwell, Gen Sir Hugh Charles (1903-1986)
- Title (official language):
- Stockwell, Gen Sir Hugh Charles (1903-1986)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Stockwell, Sir, Hugh Charles, 1903-1986, Knight, General
- Date(s):
- 1923/1987
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 16 boxes or 0.16 cubic metres
- Scope and content:
- Papers relating to early career including memoirs covering 1903-1935 and Army Record of Service, 1923-1952; campaign in Norway, World War Two, including War Diary, May 1940, operational orders and diary covering preparation of 2 Independent Company for service in Norway; papers including lecture notes and schedules for courses at Special Training Centre, Inverailort Castle, Loch Ailort, 1940-1941; Madagascar, 1942-1943, including photograph album on service with 2 Company Royal Welch Fusiliers and order of battle for Battle of Majunga, Sep 1942; Burma, 1943-1945, including memoir and photograph album, 29 Brigade, 36 Division, official reports and printed histories including the Arakan campaign; Palestine, 1947-1948 including Operation BROADSIDE, 1946, reports and correspondence; transfer of 6 Airborne Division to British Army of the Rhine, 1947-1948; Malaya, including operational papers, photographs and texts of speeches; Suez Crisis, 1956, including reports, maps, photographs and correspondence; Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, 1960-1964 including photographs; and miscellaneous papers relating to postwar career, including memorial address, 1987.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born in 1903; served with 2 Royal Welch Fusiliers; service in West Africa, 1929-1935; instructor at Small Arms School, Netheravon, 1935-1938; Brigade Maj, Royal Welch Brigade, 1938-1940; service in Norway, 1940; service with 30 East African Brigade, 1942-1943; service with 29 Independent Brigade, 1943-1945; commander of 82 (West African) Division, 1945-1946; service in Burma, 1943-1946; commander, Home Counties District, 1946-1947; commander, 6 Airborne Division, Palestine, 1947-1948; Commandant, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1948-1950; Colonel, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1952-1965; 1 Corps, British Army of the Rhine, 1954-1956; Colonel, the Royal Malay Regiment, 1954-1959; Ground Forces, Suez Operation, 1956; Gen, 1957; Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, 1957-1959; Colonel Commandant, Army Air Corps, 1957-1963; Colonel Commandant, Royal Army, 1959-1964; Adjutant General to the Forces, 1959-1960; ADC General to the Queen, 1959-1962; Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, 1960-1964; retired, 1964; died in 1986.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Stockwell, Hugh
- Subject terms:
- Military
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/s/st60-001
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
