DENT, L M E

Description

Diary Sept-Nov 1914 (corrected typescript); Dairy March-May 1915 (incomplete photocopied typescript); Dent notes about diaries, [1978?]; 2nd Army Quartermaster General duplicated circulars, Sept 1915; "Notes on Recent Operations. Compiled by G[eneral] S[taff] Fourth Army", April 1917 (printed); "Further Lessons from Recent Fighting on I Corps Front", May 1917 (duplcated circular, incomplete); Dent "Attack on Bellevue Spur on Oct 9th [1917]. 49th Div[ision]" (manuscript); Dent report on 49th Division official history, [post-1918?] (manuscript, fragmentary); Cutting of "The Times" leader, 24 October 1917; Dent "15th Division Circular memorandum No 1. Working Parties", December 1917 (manuscript); "46th Inf[antry] B[riga]de Order No 50", Feb 1918 (manuscript); "Scheme XIV", "Scheme XX", "Scheme 25" & other training documents, Feb 1918 (manuscripts by several officers, including Dent, Dent note on Cambridge Staff Courses, Dec 1917-March 1918, [1978?]); "Labour Party Operation Order No 2", March
1918 (duplicated spoof circular, also incomplete copy); Dent "Notes on One or Two Points as regards Defence", May 1918 (photocopied typescript); "Arrangments for the Collection of Intelligence and Examination of Prisoners. Xth Corps", June 1918 (duplicated circular); Dent "Notes on an Intelligence Conference [...]", July 1918 (duplicated circular & Dent note, [1978?]); "Third Army General Circular Memorandum No 1" July 1918 (printed); Dent "Rough Notes for Lecture on Intelligence", Aug 1918 (duplicated circular, 2 copies, 1 edited; manuscript draft; note, [1978?]); XIX Corps General Staff secret instructions to 35th Division, Sept 1918 (duplicated circular & Dent note, [1978?]); 3rd Guards Brigade report on front, Oct 1918 (typescript & map); Cutting about 49th Division, ["The Times"?], Jan-Feb 1919 (printed); 5th Infantry Brigade "Notes on Civil Administration [...]", March 1919 (duplicated circular); Dent "Warning Order", Sept 1919 (duplicated circular; Dent note, [1978?]); "Notes on the
1st Light Brigade Model Allotment", Oct 1919 (typescript and printed brochure); Dent "Company Commander Orders", nd (manuscript); Dent "Defence", nd (manuscript); Dent "Some Notes on Training", nd (manuscript); "Notes on Trench Fighting", nd (duplicated circular); "Notes on Trench Warfare", nd (duplicated circular); 74 + 7 aerial photographs (including 1 panoramic photograph), 1916, 1918 & nd; 5 photographs of Belgian town and village, nd; 3 frontline maps, Sept 1918 & nd; Typed transcripts of an interview recorded with Peter Liddle in Nov 1978.

Biography or history

Dent, L M E (b 1888). Born in London and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Lieutenant and Major serving with the 6th Dragoon Guards, Captain with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment, and also with the Brigade Staff, 49th Division, XIX Corps, on the Western Front. Awarded Distinguished Service Order.

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by L M E Dent in Nov 1978.

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Related material

Tapes 548 and 538: interview recorded with Peter Liddle in Nov 1978.