Collection BEARNE - BEARNE, AVM Guy (1908-2005)

Key Information

Reference code

BEARNE

Title

BEARNE, AVM Guy (1908-2005)

Date(s)

  • [1980]-1985 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

2 files

Scope and content

Copy of detailed memoir, 'From air to chair', covering his RAF career, 1929-1961, including sections on his RAF training, bomber squadron service, 1930-1933, armament training and duties, 1933-1944 and service in Iraq, 1937-1939, Bomber Command, 1939-1940... »

System of arrangement

2 files.

General Information

Name of creator

Bearne, Guy, 1908-2005, Air Vice Marshal
(1908-2005)

Biographical history

Born in 1908; commissioned into RAF, 1929; served in various bomber squadrons, 1930-1933; attended specialist armament course, 1933; armament duties, 1934-1944; served in Iraq, 1937-1939; Bomber Command, RAF, 1939-1940 and 1944-1945; Air Ministry, 1940-19... »

Repository

Custodial history

Copies made by the Centre in 1992 from originals loaned by Bearne.

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

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Note

Decorations: CB

Subjects

Place access points

People and Organisations

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.