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Preferred Citation

Albert S. Britt, Jr. papers, 1930-1962. MS 0048. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Biographical / Historical

Albert Sidney Britt, Jr. was born in 1908 in Nashville, Tennessee. He matriculated into VMI on September 14, 1926 and graduated on June 11, 1930. Britt was an United States Army officer from 1930 to 1962 and President of the Georgia Historical Society. He died in 1992 in Savannah, Georgia.

Scope and Contents

The Albert S. Britt, Jr. papers consist of papers dating from Britt's United States Army career (1930-1962), including: Correspondence Reports Notes and exercises from courses taken at the British Army Staff College, Camberley Speeches Articles Photographs One scrapbook from when Britt was a cadet at VMI

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Great Britain. Army—Staff College, Camberley
• Military records
• Photographs
• Speeches, Addresses, etc.
• United States. Army—Officers—Biography
• Virginia Military Institute—Alumni—Biography
• Virginia Military Institute—Cadet life—1920-1929
• Virginia Military Institute—Cadet life—1930-1939
• Virginia Military Institute—Class of 1930
• Virginia Military Institute—Scrapbooks