Key Information
Reference code
DEAN 3/2/8
Title
Copy papers, 1940-1977, relating to Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding
Date(s)
- 1969 Sep - 1977 Nov (Creation)
- 1940 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Photocopies of correspondence, press cuttings, archive material (including Public Records) and manuscript notes relating to the career of ACM Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory; the Battle of Britain and Dowding's removal from Bomber Command in autumn 1940, including letter from Wg Cdr Robert Wright, Dowding's biographer on sections of Dean's manuscript of The Royal Air Force and two World Wars, foreword by Sir Arthur Travers Harris (London, Cassell, 1979) relating to Dowding; notes, Nov 1977 on Dowding and Dean's book by Dennis George Richards, official historian of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. 1 file