William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880-1959), Field Marshal: detailed diaries, with memoirs, and related papers 1880-1959 (Acc 3925)
Donald Harley Nott (1908-1996), Brigadier: accounts, letters, reports, maps, notes and cine film rel to service with Military Mission 101, Abyssinia, 1941, incl notes on the training of guerrilla forces, and later correspondence with the official historian of the Second World War in East Africa 1941-1949 (Acc 3905)
James Kemp Nairne (b1923), Major: account of his military service, 1944-1952, incl service in ranks with Seaforth Highlanders, North West Europe, the Normandy landings, service in Malaya, and service in Aden. Also a series of ms diaries, [CLOSED], with correspondence and other related items rel to his diplomatic service as a Queen's Messenger 1944-1988 (Acc 3911)
Julian Howard Atherden Thompson (b1934), Major General: papers incl orders, maps and photographs rel to his service as Commander of 3 Commando Brigade, Falklands War; texts of lectures on the Falklands War and on military history 1982-2019 (Acc 3920)
Sir Ronald Andrew Fellowes Wilson (b1941), Air Chief Marshal: papers rel to his life and career, incl his service as Commander of British Forces Middle East, 1991 Gulf War 1966-1995 (Acc 3910)
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