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Lt.Col. Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce 
Bird
1908 - 1972


Lt.Col. Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce 
Bird
, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London: home page ARCHON: Contact details BIRD, Lt Col Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce (1908-1972) IDENTITY STATEMENT Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Bird Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London Title: BIRD, Lt Col Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce (1908-1972) Date(s): Created 1857-1972 Level of description: Collection (fonds) Extent: 3 files Name of creator(s): Bird | Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce | 1908-1972 | Lieutenant Colonel CONTEXT Administrative/Biographical history: Born in 1908; 2nd Lt, North Staffordshire Regt, 1929; regimental duties, 1929-1940; Lt, 1932; Capt, 1938; held various staff appointments and attended Staff College, 1940-1942; held various staff appointments and commanded 7 North Staffordshire Regt, 1942-1947; seconded to Foreign Office, 1948-1950; commanded 1 North Staffordshire Regt in Trieste, 1951-1953, and Korea General Staff Officer Grade 1 (Training), SHAPE, 1954; retired, 1956; died in 1972. CONTENT Scope and content/abstract: Papers relating to his military career, 1937-1972, principally comprising recruitment poster for North Staffordshire Regt, 1937; unsigned account of operations of 2 Bn North Staffs Regt, France, 12 May-1 Jun 1940, written in [1940]; unsigned account of operations of 6 Bn North Staffordshire Regt, France, 1 Jul-31 Aug 1944, written in [1944]; The Battle of Flanders by Kenneth Adam (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1940); papers relating to his service with North Staffordshire Regt in Trieste, 1951-1953, principally comprising press cuttings concerning protests against the Allied Military Government in Trieste, 1953, and official photographs of visit by Adm Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet, [1952-1953]; copies of letters written to his family during his service in Korea, 1953-1954; press cuttings relating to evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, 1940. Papers relating to Bird's grandfather Gen James Lewis Bird, 1857- 1938, notably including copy of a letter from Gen James Lewis Bird to his sister Pamela, 2 Jun 1857, describing the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut, India, May-Jun 1857. ACCESS AND USE Language/scripts of material: English System of arrangement: 3 files Conditions governing access: Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form. Conditions governing reproduction: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services. Finding aids: Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room. ARCHIVAL INFORMATION Archival history: Immediate source of acquisition: Presented to the Centre by the family in 1997. ALLIED MATERIALS DESCRIPTION NOTES Note: Decorations: OBE Date(s) of descriptions: May 1997 INDEX ENTRIES Subjects Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858 | Colonial conflicts | Colonial countries | Political systems Photographs | Visual materials World War Two, 1939-1945 | War | International conflicts Personal names Bird | Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce | 1908-1972 | Lieutenant Colonel Bird | James Lewis | fl 1857 | General Mountbatten | Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas | 1900-1979 | 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Admiral of the Fleet x Mountbatten of Burma | 1st Earl x Battenburg | Prince von Corporate names North Staffordshire Regiment Places Belgium | Western Europe China | East Asia Dunkirk | France | Western Europe Flanders | Western Europe Korea | East Asia Meerut | India | South Asia Trieste | Italy | Western Europe

Born: 1908Baptised: , , Bengal, India 1908
Died: 1972Buried:
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Lt.Col. Aylmer Douglas Wilberforce 
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1908 - 1972
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Gen. James Lewis 
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1857 - 1938
 
   
 

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1908Born (birth)
1908Baptised (baptism) Bengal, India
1972Died (death)
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