Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1962] (Creation)
- [1959] (Creation)
- 1955 (Creation)
- 1951 (Creation)
- 1946 (Creation)
- 1936-1937 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Copies of papers relating to his life and career, 1929-[1962], comprising four letters written while serving in Mediterranean, 1936-1937; text of his speech to the crew of HMS BERWICK in honour of Capt Arliss, 1946; synopsis of his lecture on 'The Royal Navy today', given at the Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Inglesa, Rio de Janeiro, 1951; curricula vitae, 1955, [1959], [1962].
System of arrangement
1 file
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in 1907; educated at Royal Naval Colleges, Osbourne and Dartmouth; Lt, 1929; Lt Cdr, 1934; served in Mediterranean, 1936-1937; served as Lt Cdr and Torpedo Officer, HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, 1940-1941; Cdr, 1941; served on staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean and Commander-in-Chief Levant, 1941-1943; involved in planning and execution of operations for capture of Sicily, 1943; Deputy Chief of Staff to V Adm Administration, British Pacific Fleet, 1944-1945; Capt, 1946; Deputy Director Underwater Weapons Department, Admiralty, 1946-1948; Naval Attaché, British Embassy, Rio de Janeiro, 1949-1951; Imperial Defence College, 1952; Capt, 1 Destroyer Sqn, 1953-1954; Staff of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, 1954-1955; retired in 1955; died in 1983.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in 1984.
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.
Existence and location of originals
Imperial War Museum, London.
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Note
Decorations: CBE
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
People and Organisations
- Arliss, Stephen Harry Tolson, 1895-1954, Vice Admiral (Subject)
- HMS Berwick (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.