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WESTON, Brig Gen Spencer Vaughan Percy (1883-1974)

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Title WESTON, Brig Gen Spencer Vaughan Percy (1883-1974)
 
Subject International relations
Sea transport
Maritime transport
State security
Armed forces
Military operations
Operation Georgette (1918)
Military engineering
Warfare
Maritime warfare
Visual materials
Maps
International conflicts
War
Transport
Vehicles
Ships
Submarines
World War Two (1939-1945)
Organizations
Military organizations
Wars (events)
World wars (events)
World War One (1914-1918)
Water transport
 
Description

Papers relating to Weston's career, 1916- 1945, including manuscript notes by Weston entitled 'Some notes on the discipline of Imperial troops in convoy on HM Transport LLANSTEPHAN CASTLE from Durban to Suez', 1941; notebook containing manuscript 'Standing orders for POWs', 1943; typescript report on the sinking of the EMPRESS OF CANADA, 1943; typescript instructions and duties of Draft Conducting Officers on board troopships [1943]; typescript memorandum by Weston on the co-ordination of Movement Control in South Africa, 1944, with typescript reports on officers attached to Imperial Movement Control, South Africa (IMPCON), 1944; printed material including memorandum on the German attack near Givenchy, Western Front, 1918, with printed map annotated with dispositions of German 4 Ersatz Div during attack north of Cuinchy, France, 9 Apr 1918, scale 1: 10, 000; trench map entitled France. Sheet 57D SE. Edition 3A, scale 1:20,000 (GSGS 2742, 1916), annotated with features near La Boisselle, Pozieres and Courcelette, Battle of the Somme, 1916, Field Service Pocket Book, Orders and intercommunication (HMSO, London, 1939), Rifle Drill illustrated (Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1940), Restricted War Office booklet 'Standing instructions for Officers Commanding units and drafts ordered overseas', 1943.


 
Publisher Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
 
Date 2000-07-24
 
Type text
 
Format text/html
 
Identifier http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=232&inst_id=21
 
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