Crusader Castles

Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry

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Title:: Crusader Castles

Collection:: Crusader castles and desert warfare: T E Lawrence's photographs in the Liddell Hart Collection

Archive reference:: LIDDELL HART 9/13/71

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/liddell-hart-9-13-71

Level of description:: subseries

Date of material:: 1907-1911

Creator:: Liddell Hart, Sir Basil Henry

Source collection title:: Collection LIDDELL HART - LIDDELL HART, Capt Sir Basil Henry (1895-1970)

Extent:: 153 black and white photographs

Description (scope):: Photographs relating to T E Lawrence, including his photographs of crusader castles in France, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey.

Archival history and notes:: Duplicate sets of T E Lawrence's photographs are held in several repositories. The Society of Antiquaries holds prints of Crusader castle photographs. Captions on the backs of other photographs are in Liddell Hart's handwriting unless described otherwise. Crusader castle photographs have been dated as far as possible with reference to "Crusader Castles" by T E Lawrence (London, Folio Society, 1936, 2010).

Copyright:: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.; King's College London Archives

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Title:: Photograph of a church font, Dinan, France

Archive reference:: LIDDELL HART 9/13/71

Catalogue record URL (AtoM):: https://archives.kingscollections.org/index.php/liddell-hart-9-13

Date of material:: 1907

Description:: Photograph of a carved stone font, the basin supported by a kneeling devil, [St Malo's Church], Dinan, Brittany, France. Captioned on the back 'Dinan holy water stoup'.

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sector having come down from the Flanders Battle & were being reorganized. Our trenches were the best I have seen & fairly well wired. We are now in the 3rd Corps commanded by General Pulteney, the Army Commander being Sir Julian Byng who now holds about 40 miles of front. On our left the 36th Division (Nugent ) & on our right the 55th (Jeudwine ). Divisional headquarters in a hutted camp at SOREL perched on top of a hill & exposed to every wind but no doubt very healthy. The Royal Engineers built me a small brick house with bricks from the ruined villages. I had two rooms & was as I thought fairly settled in for the winter. About the November 1917beginning of November at a Corps Conference we were informed that it was intended

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