Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1938-1950 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Collection includes manuscript memorandum by Amlot to 6 Sqn RAF Headquarters relating to the suppression of terrorist activities in Palestine, 15 Sep 1938; and press cuttings relating to the Royal Pakistan Air Force, 1948-1950, including mention of Pakistan's procurement of Dakota aircraft, Nov 1949; Amlot's inauguration of the first University Air Sqn at Dacca, East Pakistan, Nov 1949; articles written by Amlot relating to Royal Pakistan Air Force training, strategy, and force strengths, Aug-Sep 1950.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born [1910]; acquired Civil Pilot's Licence, 1933; commissioned into the RAF, 1935; converted to RAF Service Flying at 4 Flying Training School, Abu Sueir, Egypt, [1935]; posted to 6 Sqn RAF at Ismailia, Egypt, and was engaged in operations in Palestine, where he was awarded the DFC for gallantry in the air, 1936-1938; appointed RAF Flying Instructor at RAF College Cranwell and then Chief Flying Instructor at 21 RAF Flying School at Kumalo, Rhodesia, [1939-1941]; commanded 27 RAF Elementary Flying School at Induna, Rhodesia, [1941]; commanded RAF Station, Cardington, taught at RAF Staff College, Hampshire, and was posted to Organisation Planning at the Air Ministry, [1942-1946]; commanded 1 Group, Royal Pakistan Air Force, and was responsible for supply dropping operations in Kashmir, [1947-1948]; assumed position of Chief of Staff, Royal Pakistan Air Force, during the absence of Commander in Chief AVM Richard Llewellyn Roger Atcherley in Australia, 1949; Director of Air Training, Air Ministry, [1951]; awarded CBE, 1951; died Mar 1979.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre in 1979 by the family
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
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.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Compiled Oct 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Aircraft
- Arab Revolt (1936-1939)
- Armed forces
- Central government
- Civil war
- Colonial conflicts
- Colonial countries
- Crime
- Government
- Government departments
- Higher science education
- India-Pakistan Civil War (1947-1948)
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military aircraft
- Military education
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Political movements
- Political systems
- Public administration
- Revolutionary movements
- State security
- Terrorism
- Vehicles
- War
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
People and Organisations
- Atcherley, Richard Llewellyn Roger, 1904-1970, Air Marshal (Subject)
- Air Ministry (Subject)
- RAF, Royal Air Force (Subject)
- Royal Pakistan Air Force (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.