Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
0.05 box or 0.05 cubic metres
Scope and content
Photocopies of reports relating to the role of HMS SCOURGE in Operations NEPTUNE and OVERLORD, Jun 1944, France.
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1912; educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, joined Royal Navy in 1925; served in China, 1930-1932 and South Africa, 1935-1937; commanded destroyers during World War Two on various stations; served in the Mediterranean, 1948; Far East, 1949-1950 and USA, 1951-1953; Capt (D), 2 Destroyer Flotilla, 1956-1958, Director of Officer Appointments, 1958-1959 and Senior Naval Member, Imperial Defence College, 1960-1963; retired in 1963; died 1999.
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in the Centre by Balfour in 1990.
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
Script of material
Uploaded finding aid
Existence and location of originals
The originals are retained by R Adm Balfour.
Please note: We require 7 days notice to retrieve this collection as part, or all of it, is held off-campus. Read more ›
Note
Compiled June 1996, updated 2016
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Armed forces
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military engineering
- Military operations
- Military organizations
- Operation Neptune (1944)
- Operation Overlord (1944)
- Organizations
- Ships
- State security
- Vehicles
- War
- Warfare
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
- Wars (events)
- Pharmaceutic aids
- Specialty uses of chemicals
- Chemical actions and uses
Place access points
People and Organisations
- HMS Scourge (Subject)
- RN, Royal Navy (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.