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Description: | Extensive collection of material relating to his service as an officer with the Rifle Brigade, Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Director General of the Home Guard and Governor of Gibraltar including his personal diaries detailing his day to day activities and appointment books, 1918 - 1958; personal and official correspondence, 1937 - 1953; and drafts of official dispatches from the Dunkirk campaign from Major General Eastwood, General Brooke and Lieutenant General Marshall-Cornwall, 1 - 19 June 1940. Also included are a large collection of loose photographs relating to his personal and public life, 1939 - 1947; press cuttings spanning his career, 1937 - 1947; and other ephemera, most notably a broadcast calling for volunteers for the Home Guard, January 1941, and material relating to his service as Governor of Gibraltar, February 1944 - February 1947.
Cataloguer CL
Catalogue date 1999-09-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Eastwood, Thomas Ralph | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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